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Singer Sargent |
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| Born: 1856 - Died: 1925. |
| Sargent was born in Florence, Italy in 1856 to American ex-patriots. Educated and fluent in several languages, Sargent moved with ease in European aristocracy, combined with his artistic training by the famous Parisian portraitist Carolus-Duran, Sargent launched a lifelong career of success after success.
However his career was not without scandal.
As early as 1882, Sargent had a great desire to paint the portrait of Madame Gautreau, this he accomplished and it became exhibited as Madame x, it was exhibited in the Salon of 1884.
The painting caused a great deal of horror and scandal. The original portrait showed Madame Gautreau with her right shoulder strap erotically slipped over her shoulder. This eroticism, combined with her grave flesh tones, proved too much for conservative critics.
Not long after the scandal, Sargent moved to London where he would live for the rest of his life. Over the next few years established himself as the country's leading portrait painter.
Sargent made several visits to the USA where as well as portraits he worked on a series of decorative paintings for public buildings such as the Boston Public Library (1890) and the Museum of Fine Arts (1916).
In 1918 Sargent was commissioned to paint a large painting to symbolize the co-operation between British and American forces during the 1914-1918 First World War. Sargent was sent to France with the British painter, Henry Tonks. One day Sargent visited a casualty clearing station at Le Bac-de-Sud. While at the casualty station he witnessed an orderly leading a group of soldiers that had been blinded by mustard gas. He used this as a subject for a naturalist allegorical frieze depicting a line of young men with their eyes bandaged. The painting named “Gassed” soon became one of the most memorably haunting images of the war.
Sargent died quietly in his sleep of a heart attack on April 25, 1925 at the age of sixty-nine. |
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