Detail of John Singer Sargent, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" (1882), oil on canvas (all photos Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic) John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in Paris in 1874.

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because I‘ve never ...

Assembling more than 90 works, many of which are returning to France for the first time since their creation, the exhibition John Singer Sargent. Dazzling Paris at the Orsay Museum in Paris – the ...

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(from left) MADAME X 1884 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916; Nude study Thomas E. McKeller 1920 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (cropped) John Singer Sargent ...

Since John Singer Sargent and Henry Clay Frick were contemporaries with sympathetic tastes, moving in elite circles, it’s surprising that they never got together for a sitting. The Frick Collection, ...

“Detestable! Boring! Curious! Monstrous!” the crowds shouted. “Madame X” (pictured) scandalised visitors to the Paris Salon in 1884, with her heavy make-up and tight black gown whose strap was ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There are only a few days left to experience the Sargent and Paris exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum ...

She was the sensation of Paris—known for her dramatic patrician looks, a Roman nose, and a famously cinched waist, as well as her numerous extramarital affairs. But the biggest scandal of ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...