John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents ...

John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the sinuous contours of whom have been in the museum’s permanent collection ...

John Singer Sargent ... been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished,” wrote one critic in a 1925 obituary. But before he became the hottest portrait painter in France ...

Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings that caused quite a stir at their unveilings, Mark Arts’ current major exhibition focuses on fashion in fine art. “The jumping off point is ...

John Singer Sargent in his Paris studio, c. 1885, with his "scandalous" portrait of Madame Gautreau, aka Madame X. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution "It is a very simple truth ...

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explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that infamous portrait of Madame X in 1884. Sargent was just 18 ...

Courtesy of Tate And this episode’s Work of the Week is arguably John Singer Sargent’s most famous—and in its time, his most infamous—painting, Madame X (1883-84). A portrait of Virginie ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be opening their latest exhibition on Sunday entitled Sargent & Paris.

John Singer Sargent is the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the ...

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends is on at the National Portrait Gallery, London from Thursday 12 February until Monday 25 May 2015 ...