Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends
Jun 30, 2015 to Oct 04, 2015
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Throughout his career, the celebrated American painter John Singer Sargent created portraits of artists, writers, actors, and musicians, many of whom were his close friends. Because these works were rarely commissioned, he was free to create images that were more radical than those he created for paying clients. He often posed these sitters informally—in the act of painting, singing, or performing, for example. Together, the portraits constitute a group of experimental paintings and drawings—some of them highly charged, others sensual, and some of them intimate, witty, or idiosyncratic.
Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 30, the exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends brings together about 90 of these distinctive portraits. It also explores in depth the friendships between Sargent and those who posed for him as well as the significance of these relationships to his life and art.
The exhibition is made possible by The Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund. The exhibition is organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[Image: John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). Group with Parasols (Siesta) (detail), ca. 1905. Oil on canvas. Private Collection.]
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