John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907: The Complete Paintings, Volume VII (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
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John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907: The Complete Paintings, Volume VII (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Details
Review "[S]tunningly beautiful . . . [John Singer Sargent's] watercolors of Venice are so luminous, so brilliant, so breathtaking that one would never wish to put him or this gorgeous volume of Venetian Figures and Landscapes 1898—1913 on a back shelf."—Robert Kiely, Commonweal (Robert Kiely Commonweal)“Lusciously illustrated, carefully researched . . . [a] beautiful volume.”—Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly) Read more About the Author Richard Ormond is a Sargent scholar and independent art historian. He is a great-nephew of John Singer Sargent. Elaine Kilmurray is coauthor and research director of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné project. Read more
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I couldn't be happier with and more thankful for Volume 7 in this monograph series of extraordinary scholarship and lovely reproductions of John Singer Sargent's paintings. Volume 7 is the perfect companion to Volume 6 John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes 1898-1913: Complete Paintings: Volume VI, one of my very favorite go-to books to enjoy this fine artist's work.I thoroughly disagree with 2 of the previous reviews; I'm so glad that I decided to buy this book in spite of them.With what eyes does one look at these beautiful paintings and call them cr@p?Yes, it is a catalogue raisonné. There are many oils, as well as watercolors included. Yes, Sargent was prolific and enjoyed painting watercolors as he left off painting society portraits. This volume is reflective of that. Moreover, Sargent is regarded as one of the finest and most successful proponents of the watercolor medium to have ever lived. Surely, the few unfinished watercolor studies that are included enlighten the viewer as to Sargent's working methods in a way that written language cannot. 'Finished' or 'unfinished', they are a delight to the eye that loves beauty.This book is highly recommended and worth every cent, both for it's incisive scholarship and for the high quality and volume of color reproductions.
