1905

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Bedouins

1905
Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on off-white, thick, rough-textured wove paper
45.7 x 30.5 cm (18 x 12 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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The power of Sargent's watercolors is in the complexity of what matters -- the wonderful faces of these Bedouins looking right at us. And the lush flow of color in what doesn't matter and what our eyes don't normally pick up at first impression -- the flowing drape of their clothes. In a single painting, Sargent shows us the the whole range and...
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Near the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

1905-06
Oil on canvas
64.8 X 96.5 cm (25 1/2 X 38 in.)

Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, UK

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NotesĀ  Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987 Bibliography 1) Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 216] 2) Wilson, Joy The Unknown Sargents,...
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