Sargent: The Masterworks

Sargent: The Masterworks brings together 100 iconic paintings by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), the American Impressionist master of portraiture and watercolour. It explores his diverse body of work—portraits (Madame X, Met), landscapes, murals—with dazzling light and colour that capture the modern intimacy of the Edwardian bourgeoisie and aristocracy. Stephanie L. Herdrich traces his cosmopolitan childhood, his training in Paris, his rise in London and the US, and his maturity in plein air painting after 1900. A sensual portrait of the Gilded Age; an illustrated chronology reveals his nomadic life. An essential portrait of America’s most beloved artist.