In the early work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Henry James saw the slightly \'uncanny\' spectacle of a talent which on the threshold of its career has nothing more to learn.
It also includes a new preface by the author and an updated bibliography..
Now, for the first time, this landmark monograph is offered in a special Oversize format, with all of its 310 illustrations reproduced in full color, many at full-page size.
Ratcliff expertly evokes the expatriate American milieu into which the artist was born, and offers penetrating insights into every phase of his career and every aspect of his work.
In Carter Ratcliff, Sargent has found a biographer and critic of fitting style and subtlety.
Sargent\'s talent, nay, genius was indeed uncanny, sustained with equal intensity through his famed society portraits, like the scandalous Madame X ; his full-size showpieces, like The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit ; his thousands of watercolors executed en plein air from Venice to Corfu to Maine to Montana; and his ambitious mural decorations for the public monuments of Boston.
In the early work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Henry James saw the slightly \'uncanny\' spectacle of a talent which on the threshold of its career has nothing more to learn
