Study of a Man's Head
Type:Painting
Year:circa 1878
Size:22.00" x 17.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
This painting sold for $243,000 at the Skinner American & European Works of Art auction in Boston on September 19, 2014.
John Singer Sargent ART FOR SALE
1856 Florence, Italy - 1925 London, England. Known for: Portrait, figure, landscape and mural painting.
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his mother, an amateur painter. In Rome at age 12, he studied with Carl Welsch, a German-American artist and in 1870 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In Paris, he was accepted in 1874 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts but switched to the less... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his mother, an amateur painter. In Rome at age 12, he studied with Carl Welsch, a German-American artist and in 1870 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In Paris, he was accepted in 1874 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts but switched to the less academically oriented atelier of Carolus Duran, who had major impact on Sargent's style. Duran was an adventurous portrait painter who blended realism... Read full biography
John Singer Sargent - Art for Sale (3 available)
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Portrait of an Elderly Man
Type:Painting
Size:30.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Attributed To Artist
Notes:
Emerging from the shadows sits a man in a 3/4 profile, his arm gently resting on the top of a spindle-back chair with his intense gaze deftly illuminated. With bold brushstrokes, few details and an imposing composition , Sargent's sitter encroaches into our space creating an intimate viewing.
Clementina Anstruther-Thomson
Type:Painting
Year:1889
Size:42.00" x 29.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Portrait of Clementina Anstruther- Thomson signed and dated 1889 and listed in the Yale University Press book on The Early Portraits of John Singer Sargent.