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Javanese Dancer

1889
Oil on canvas
172.2 x 80 cm (68 x 31 1/2 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
The Javanese dancers had come to the Paris to perform in the colonial section of the Paris Exposition Universal of 1889. They were so popular that they remained for a time  performing in theaters and became part of cosmopolitan chic that was prevalent in the wake of the Exposition. Sargent, not one to pass up an opportunity to paint exotic...
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A Javanese Girl at Her Toilet

1889
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 in.

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A Javanese Dancer

1889
Oil
177.8 x 81.3 cm (70 x 32 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Notes:  Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003 Bibliography: Mount, Charles Merrill, "John Singer Sargent: a biography," London: Cresset Press, 1957. Catalogue    JSS: 20055 SIRIS IAP: 81710128 CMM: K8911
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Javanese dancer sketch

1889
Graphite pencil on paper
9.9 x 13 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Two Women in a Cafe

1918
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and wax crayon on white wove paper
13 5/16 x 20 15/16 in. (33.9 x 53.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Lady Fishing - Mrs. Ormond

1889
Oil on canvas
184.8 x 97.8 cm

notes
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption   (29-Apr-1996) Violet  1881 It was while Sargent was living in the Cotswolds during the 1880s that his painting was closest to Impressionism. He was friendly with Monet, whom he visited in France several times. Sargent rented a large house in Fladbury, beside the River Avon, in...
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Violet Fishing

1889
Oil on canvas
71.1 x 53.3 cm (28 x 21 in.)

notes
Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987 Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003 Lady Fishing - Mrs. Ormond   1889   Tate Gallery London   Oil on canvas   184.8 x 97.8 cm  
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A Portrait of Violet

1889
Oil on canvas
59.69 x 38.1 cm (23.5 x 15 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Possibly it was Violet again that inspired Sargent sketch below: Woman Sketch Date? Violet  1881  Notes: Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
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Woman Sketch

c. 1889 ?
Graphite on off-white wove paper bound in a beige canvas sketchbook
15.2 x 24.2 cm

notes
This may be Sargent's sister Violet A Portrait of Violet 1889 From: Harvard Contained in a Sketchbook with 16 numbered pages.  The sketchbook contains portraits of several women, including: Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and Alice Guerin (Madame Paul Helleu). The sketchbook also contains studies of animals: gorillas, cats,...
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Two Girls with Parasols at Fladbury

1889
Oil on canvas
74.9 x 63.5 cm (29 1/2 x 25 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
See as it hung in the Met 2003 Note:   Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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