John Singer Sargent at American Art Gallery

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	Madame Paul Poirson 1885 Oil on canvas 149.9 x 85 cm (59 x 33 1/2 in.) Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI	In 1883 John Singer Sargent rented a studio owned by Paul Poirson. According to family history this portrait of Poirson's wife was done in lieu of a rent payment. Sargent's friendly relationship with the Poirsons made this work more personal than the business transaction might suggest. (dia.org7-1-2001) Notes Bibliography: ...	GA	igrkio
	Mrs. Alice Mason 1885 Oil on canvas 154.9 x 104.1 cm (61 x 41 in.) Private Collection Unknown, USA	Three-quarter-length portrait of Mrs. Alice Mason (1838-1913) wearing a black dress with white cuffs and collar and a pearl necklace. She holds a feather fan in her (SIRIS) Note: Exhibitions: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, no. 877. References: Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent:...	GA	igrkio
	Portrait of Madame La Comtesse Jacques De Ganay (Renee De Maille) 1885 Oil on canvas Oval 28 3/4 x 19 5/8 in	La Comtesse Jacques De Ganay was a promrnant member of Parisian high society.She is mentioned in Prouts' account (under the pen name of Tout-Pais) of "A Literary Feast At Versailles" which was attended by just about everyone in Sargent's world: Artists such as Giovanni Boldini, J.J. Tissot, Jean Beraud, Paul Helleu and Léon Delafosse. ...	GA	igrkio
	Claude Monet Painting 1885 Oil on canvas 54 x 64.8 cm (21 1/4 x 25 1/5 in.)	When Sargent arrived in Paris to formally study painting in 1874, it was the same year of the Monet was showing at the Exhibition of Independents and was nine years after the scandalous exhibition of Edouard Manet's Olympia. By 1885-1887 (as the exact date of this painting is in question) the Impressionist moment was in full swing. Though...	GA	igrkio
	Pointy (portrait of Louise Burckhardt's dog) 1885 Oil on panel 27.3 x 21.6 cm (10.7" x 8.5 in.) Private Collection Unknown, USA	From Christies Pointy was a mongrel owned by John Singer Sargent's close friend Louise Burckhardt. Edward and Elizabeth Burckhardt, and their two daughters, Louise and Valerie, were expatriates living in Paris. Sargent painted each member of the Burckhardt family between 1880-1885, and the present picture was painted from sketches Sargent made...	GA	igrkio
	Mrs. Frederick Barnard (Alice Faraday) 1885 Oil on canvas 104.1 x 57.1 cm	Alice Barnard (1847-1952) was the mother of Polly and Dorothy Barnard (both posed for John's Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose) and the wife of the artist Frederick Barnard from the Broadway colony. It was at Broadway where they met John and in the absence of any commissions Sargent practiced on his friends. In 1896, her husband Frederick, died in a...	GA	igrkio
	Portrait of Alfred Parsons 1885 Charcoal 17.5 x 23 in. Private Collection Unknown, USA	Alfred William Parsons RA (1847-1920) was British landscape painter and illustrator, born in Somerset raied in London. He became very much apart of the close nit artist group at Broadway, probably through his friendship with Abbey -- they were roomates in London and had studios right next door to each other. He illustrated for Harper's New...	GA	igrkio
	Sketchbook (Carnation/ Lily) Robert Louis Stevenson 1880-1885 Mostly graphite and charcoal, and some pen and brown ink, on off-white wove paper, bound in a beige canvas sketchbook 25.5 x 35 cm (actual)	Notes: Sketchbook measures 255 x 350 mm., individual sheets are approx. 247 x 345 mm. The pages are numbered in brown ink in the top right hand corner. Page eight is missing/ has been removed from the sketchbook. The condition of the sketchbook is fragile, and many of the pages are loose. In an unpublished Harvard course paper, Anne van Dijkum...	GA	igrkio
	Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife August 1885 Oil on canvas 52.1 x 62.2 cm ( 20 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.)	Robert Louis Stevenson is pacing and his wife Fanny is seated in background to the right of the door. By and large, the critical review was mixed about this painting. They thought the composition odd and the depiction of Stevenson strange and unflattering, just as some people had said about Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882). But...	GA	igrkio
	Terra Gosse 1885 Oil on canvas 63.5 x 48.3 cm (25 x 19 in.)	Terra Gosse and her father, Edmund Gosse, was part of the Broadway colony. Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987 Sold Christie's; 12/4/92; Lot 6; $242,000	GA	igrkio

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