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A Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Long-listed for the Plutarch Award

A bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de siècle culture he inhabited.

A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the nouveaux riches as well as the old money, but he reserved his greatest sympathies for Bedouins, Spanish dancers, and the gondoliers of Venice. At the height of his renown in Britain and America, he quit his lucrative portrait-painting career to concentrate on allegorical murals with religious themesand on nude drawings of male models that he kept

The Grand Affair

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      Publisher Picador
      Published 1/31/2023 12:10:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781250872548
      978-1250872548
      ISBN-10 1250872545
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      Individual architects Individual artists, art monographs Autobiography: arts and entertainment

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Long-listed for the Plutarch Award

      A bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de siècle       culture he inhabited.

      A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the nouveaux riches as well as the old money, but he reserved his greatest sympathies for Bedouins, Spanish dancers, and the gondoliers of Venice. At the height of his renown in Britain and America, he quit his lucrative portrait-painting career to concentrate on allegorical murals with religious themesand on nude drawings of male models that he kept

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