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OCTOBER 15, 2006
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Legal battle over painting collection includes Sargent work
 An unprecedented legal spectacle opens this week in New Brunswick when lawyers for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and its aristocratic English patrons begin arbitrating their nasty, three-year-old dispute over the ownership of $200 million worth of famous paintings all under the curious gaze of the public, which has been invited to watch the proceedings.
...Since 2003, a series of lawsuits and counter-claims have been filed in both countries between the foundations, run by Beaverbrook's two English grandsons, and the gallery itself, contesting the custody of 211 works, including paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Cornelius Krieghoff and Jean-Paul Riopelle.  |
Complete story by Richard Foot at canada.com
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The Washington DC Corcoran Gallery of Art has a traveling exhibit which includes Sargent's portrait "Marie Buloz Pailleron" which is now at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. Below is an excerpt from a Newsday article by Ariella Budick reviewing the exhibit:
These women, painted by Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins and other masters of American painting, hang alongside two others by their female colleagues, both depicting fashionable heiresses with their pets. Cecilia Beaux, a long-underrated contemporary of Sargent's, offers up a pale ingenue in white lace whose arching black cat, perched on her shoulder, might belie a less innocent side of her character. Mary Cassatt's "Young Girl at a Window" seems silently to bemoan her confinement behind the bars of a fine Parisian terrace, which is a kind of gilded cage.
hamptons.com mentions:
The Parrish Art Museum is the only venue in the Northeastern United States to host this nationally-traveling exhibition.
The Parrish Art Museum Web site is here.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art web site is here.
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VENICE
Forbes magazine has a story on the record price set recently for a
Venetian scene by J.M.W.Turner painting. It also mentions Venetian Loggia by Sargent:
Venice is on fire. In addition to record prices for Turner and Ziem within the past year, Venetian scenes have garnered high auction sums for many other important artists, including John Singer Sargent. His "Venetian Loggia" sold for $5.6 million in 2004..
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New drawing added to the artwork index:
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MADAME XXX
The UK Guardian newspaper has an article on Sargent's Madame X:
Sargent shocked the French. Madame X scandalised Paris, the city that had seen it all. Displayed in the huge jury-selected exhibition, the Salon, in 1884, it horrified Parisians so much that the ignominy drove Sargent across the Channel to take refuge in Britain.
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"Portrait of Monet" page updated
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Sargent in New York
The Winter Antiques Show is scheduled for Jan. 20-29 at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York. The Adelson Galleries hosts a selection of work by John Singer Sargent, John Singleton Copley, Eastman Johnson, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase and others.
Adelson Gallery
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New addition:
Daughters of Asher & Mrs. Wertheimer
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Americans
Abroad:
Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and William Merrit Chase
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
Public Program Lecture
January 4: American Beauties Winter Course. Danielle Steinmann,
assistant curator of education, will present the lecture "Americans
Abroad: Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and William Merrit
Chase." Cost $6 ($4 members), 1 pm.
The Clark, 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA, 01267.
www.clarkart.edu
413-458-2303
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NEW
ADDITIONS
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Sargent's
"The Mosquito Net"
Orlando Sentinel editor
Jay Boyar mentions this painting from a tour of the White House
in Washington DC here.
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Doyle
Auction includes Sargent's charcoal sketch of Eleonora Randolph
Sears - sells for $96,000
Lot 144,
Signed and dated John S. Sargent 1921, Charcoal on paperboard
24 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches
From the
Doyle New York Auction of Modern, Contemporary, European and
American Art held May 24, 2005. Auction web site here.
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| Sothebys
will have an "American Paintings, Drawings &
Sculpture" auction on the 30th of November,
2005. There are five Sargent lots listed for the catalogue.
Click on the image below for an enlarged screenshot of the
offerings. The Sotheby's internet page for the auction is here. |
Sargent's
painting The Rialto is included in the auction:
"PROPERTY
FROM THE ESTATE OF LEONARD GREEN SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
GREEN FOUNDATION FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ARTS, EDUCATION, AND
MEDICAL/SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
JOHN SINGER SARGENT
1856-1925
THE RIALTO
3,000,000—4,000,000 USD (Estimate)"
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UK Telegraph
has a story on famous American Artists in Paris (including
Sargent) here.
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Boston.com
reports on Sargent landscape presentation:
The Ellis
Antiques Show kicks off tonight with a private preview at The
Castle at the Boston Park Plaza, and one of the pricier items
is John Singer Sargent's 1908 landscape, ''Valdemosa, Majorca,
Pomegranate Trees," which is presented by William Vareika
Fine Arts of Newport, R.I. Gallery co-owner Alison Vareika hung
the painting the other day.
Article
appears here.
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Boom
in Fine-Art investment continues to
boost Sargent prices to new highs
The nj.com web site reports:
"In
the past two years, collectors have paid $24 million for a sketchy
oil by American portrait master John Singer Sargent, $52 million
for a crumbling Jackson Pollock, $104 million for Pablo Picasso's
"Boy With a Pipe" and even $3 million for a painting
by a living South African woman you probably have never heard
of."
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"Madame
X" used as teaching instrument by police
Theaustralian.com web site reports on the
unusual 'art lessons' being taught to a trainee group of officers:
"The
officers are allowed to practice their observational acuity
on a few paintings projected on a screen before being sent off
in groups to examine some of the most expensive virtual crime
scenes in the world. The first picture displayed on the screen
is Madame X, by John Singer Sargent. Herman swears that the
inclusion of the artist is not intentional and promises that
no Constables will be studied during class.
The officers
soon decide that Madame X is a no-good seductress, which is
exactly what people thought of Madame Pierre Gautreau, its subject,
when the painting was unveiled at the Paris Salon of 1884."
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Sargent
Sells for $23.5 million (US)
This from artnet.com:
"The
art market loves John Singer Sargent. The American painter's bucolic
scene of napping picnickers, Group with Parasols (A Siesta) (1905),
sold for a fantastic $23,528,000, well above its presale high
estimate of $12,000,000, at Sotheby's New York on Dec. 1, 2004,
a new auction record for a work by the artist. The painting came
from the collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad; the buyer was an
anonymous private collector. "
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Sargent
News
NEW BOOK ENTIRELY ON SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF VIRGINIE GAUTREAU
"The
story behind the legendary John Singer Sargent painting that
propelled the artist to international renown but condemned
his subject to a life of public ridicule.
John
Singer Sargent's Madame X is one of the world's best-known
portraits. As the Metropolitan's most frequently requested
painting for loans, it travels to museums around the globe.
The image of "Madame X" decorates book and magazine
covers, greeting cards and screen savers. She's even been
immortalized as a Madame Alexander doll.
Few
people, though, know the fascinating story behind the painting.
"Madame X" was actually a twenty-three-year-old
New Orleans Creole, Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris
and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. All
the leading artists wanted to paint her, but it was Sargent,
a relative nobody, who won the commission. Gautreau and Sargent
must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for
fame.
Unveiled
at the 1884 Paris Salon, Gautreau's portrait did generate
the attention she craved-but it led to infamy rather than
stardom. Sargent had painted one strap of Gautreau's dress
dangling from her shoulder, suggesting, to outraged Parisian
viewers, either the prelude or the aftermath of sex. Her reputation
irreparably damaged, Gautreau retired from public life, destroying
all the mirrors in her home so she would never have to look
at herself again.
Why
had Sargent chosen to portray her in such a provocative manner?
Was the painting, with the scandal it generated, the machination
of a sexually conflicted man who desired a woman and a lifestyle
he could never possess?
Drawing
on documents from private collections and other previously
unexamined materials and featuring a cast of characters including
Oscar Wilde and Richard Wagner, Strapless is an enthralling
tale of art and celebrity, obsession and betrayal. "
The
complete page from Amazon.com is here.
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(Above:
screen shot)
Newspaper article mentioning Sargent:
San
Diego Union Tribune
Sea to shining
see: 150 years of American Art
Compelte
article here
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Sargent
News
REVIEW OF "MADAME X" AND
THE ADELSON GALLERY SHOW
"The
scandal of "Madame X" at the 1884 Paris Salon exhibition,
and her recently deciphered letter praising the portrait, inspired
"Sargent's Women," the first retrospective focusing
on the artist's relationships with his models, according to Warren
Adelson, the organizer. The exhibition of 55 oils, watercolors
and drawings – which opened Wednesday at the Adelson Galleries
and lasts through Dec. 13 – draws from the holdings of U.S.
museums and private collections, including about a dozen from
Sargent's descendants in Britain and the United States. The review
aims to document Sargent's attraction to the glamorous women he
portrayed during his early career, from 1878 to 1890, and his
genius for capturing their essence – even though he was sexually
ambivalent and never married,"
The
entire article by David Minthorn is here.
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"NOTORIOUS
WOMAN" REVIEW
She
is the American Venus and our own Mona Lisa, a woman whose name
was once synonymous with eccentric beauty. And though she is
known today by another name, she endures as a myth and a memory,
an image and an idea of the American spirit and the eternal
feminine.
We see
her as John Singer Sargent saw her in his full-length oil painting
— a slender but bosomy young woman, presented in profile
to show off the slope of her nose. Her auburn upsweep is topped
by a crescent-shaped ornament. Her deathly pallor and hourglass
shape are offset by a black gown consisting of a slim, bell-shaped
satin skirt and a tight, low-cut velvet bodice with diamond
straps.
Late-19th
century Paris would've recognized this as a portrait of Virginie
Amélie Avegno Gautreau. We know it as "Madame X"
(1883-84).
The entire
article by Georgette Gouveia is here.
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ADELSON
GALLERY SHOWING SARGENT WATERCOLORS
Through
Dec. 13, 2003
Paintings from 1878-1890
Adelson Gallery, 25 E. 77th St. (212) 439-6800
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Sargent
'Rooftop' painting auctions at Sotheby's for $5,395,750
For a 'Market Report' on the sale, go to the artnet.com site Here
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Sargent
at the Seattle Museum of Art
Press release summarizes the 2000-2001 Sargent exhibit held there. More
ARTICLE ABSTRACT to the 1999 Smithsonian magazine piece
on Sargent that corresponded with the Washington DC exhibit. On
Smithsonian magazine site here. Click on cover art above to view larger size.
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New Sargent
article:
"Man Screaming"
By Trevor Fairbrother
in the Spring 2001 issue of American Art
"Confronted
with such a drawing, why wouldn't more Americanists cut Sargent
some retroactive slack?" More on the NMAA web site
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