Sargent was not as well-known a few decades ago as he seems to be today. Sargent was well under my radar when I was discovering many other painters like Turner and Friedrich, Rothko and Pollock, Bacon and Freud, Rauschenberg and Liechtenstein.
Seems like in the past couple of years, Sargent has surged in stature, and good, he deserves more attention.
I’d certainly not heard of him when learning about impressionists at school. Definitely deserves more widespread acclaim. An interesting life too, Born to Americans in Italy, trained and working in France, then rejected after his “Portrait of Madame X” so he moved to England and made further portrait work and paintings of his friends at rest.
Sargent was not as well-known a few decades ago as he seems to be today. Sargent was well under my radar when I was discovering many other painters like Turner and Friedrich, Rothko and Pollock, Bacon and Freud, Rauschenberg and Liechtenstein.
Seems like in the past couple of years, Sargent has surged in stature, and good, he deserves more attention.
I’d certainly not heard of him when learning about impressionists at school. Definitely deserves more widespread acclaim. An interesting life too, Born to Americans in Italy, trained and working in France, then rejected after his “Portrait of Madame X” so he moved to England and made further portrait work and paintings of his friends at rest.