Sargent's Daughters Biography of a Painting

Name: Sargent's Daughters Biography of a Painting
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ISBN: 9780878467426

ISBN-10: 0878467424

ISBN-13: 9780878467426

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Singer Sargent, Erica Hirshler

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One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside "Madame X" and "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw" as one of Sargent's immortal images. This painting depicts four young sisters in the spacious foyer of the family's Paris apartment, strangely dispersed across the murky tones and depths of the square canvas, as though unrelated to one another, unsettled and unsettling to the eye. "The Daughters" both affirms and defies convention, flouting the boundaries between portrait and genre scene, formal composition and quick…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publication date: 10/31/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 262
Size: 5.80" wide x 7.60" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English