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John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits

by Richard Ormond
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781913107468
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
  • Publisher Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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  • Pages: 407
  • Original Price: USD 80.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 2524 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Portraits

A comprehensive catalogue of Sargent's charcoal portraits, capturing high society, professions, and the arts in an era of profound transformation

In comparison with his portraits in oil, John Singer Sargent's charcoal portraits are relatively little known. In this authoritative new volume, Richard Ormond documents the nearly 700 drawings that make up this distinct strand of Sargent's oeuvre. These portraits capture the essence of British and American high society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, portraying an elite clientele that includes aristocracy, royalty, politicians, artists, writers, actors, financiers, and philanthropists. Among Sargent's subjects are such prominent figures as the Astors, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Du Ponts, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Ethel Barrymore, W. B. Yeats, and Winston Churchill.

Though renowned for his paintings of women, these charcoal portraits also reveal Sargent's interest in depicting athletes across a variety of sports, from cricket and fencing to football and polo. This shift in subject matter from prewar to postwar, along with a sparser style characteristic of his charcoal work, casts new light on Sargent's depictions of the period's social landscape.

Surviving letters between Sargent and his patrons, reminiscences recorded in contemporary diaries, and David McKibbin's extensive correspondence with sitters, both document the portraits and provide a vivid and human picture of the artist at work.

Richard Ormond is an art historian and the great-nephew of John Singer Sargent. He is the coauthor, with Elaine Kilmurray, of the nine-volume catalogue raisonné of Sargent's paintings.

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