John Singer Sargent: Masterpiece Edition

The classic monograph on a much-loved artist—reissued in a spectacular oversize format. This new edition of John Singer Sargent will be a treasured reference for artists and an unalloyed delight for art lovers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 08 December 2022
Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.

“Fascinating and lucid . . . a stunningly illustrated and illuminating life of a singular painter.” — Sue Roe,Wall Street Journal
“Not just another art history book,no title in recent memory recalls with such exactitude the style of an era that,in retrospect,has become increasingly golden. . . . The book and its prose shimmer.”  — New York Times
“Never before have Sargents talents been so gloriously displayed as they are here. Quite simply,this Abbeville edition is a stunner,a book as satisfyingly extravagant as a Sargent portrait.”  — Christian Science Monitor
“The spontaneity,elegance,and grace that characterize Sargents work are everywhere evident on these large,luminous pages. . . . A visual delight,well written.”  — Art and Antiques
The classic monograph on a much-loved artist—reissued in a spectacular oversize format
In the early work of John Singer Sargent (1856–1925),Henry James saw “the slightly ‘uncanny spectacle of a talent which on the threshold of its career has nothing more to learn.” Sargents talent,nay,genius was indeed uncanny,sustained with equal intensity through his famed society portraits,like the scandalous  Madame X ; his full-size showpieces,like  The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit ; his thousands of watercolours executed en plein air from Venice to Corfu to Maine to Montana; and his ambitious mural decorations for the public monuments of Boston. In Carter Ratcliff,Sargent has found a biographer and critic nearly his match in style and subtlety. Ratcliff expertly evokes the expatriate American milieu into which the artist was born,and offers penetrating insights into every phase of his career,every aspect of his work. Now,for the first time,this landmark monograph is offered in a special oversize format,with a.

Weight: 3064g
Dimension: 315 x 390 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780789214409
Edition number: New ed