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Rated X.(two books about Madame X)(Book Review)
Belle Epoque Paris may have greeted John Singer Sargent's portrait of Madame X with derision, but the luminously pale model he captured has become an icon. Deborah Davis sets out to revive the woman behind the image in Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Tarcher). She depicts Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau, "Paris's hottest 'it' girl," as a narcissistic socialite whose greatest fear was to be ignored. Davis speculates that Sargent, as a result of his infatuation and sexual confusion, conflated Gautreau's profile and that of a young artist, Albert de Belleroche, into a single object of desire in sketches and paintings. Though the portrait's poor reception at the 1884 Salon proved only a temporary setback for the artist's career, Gautreau's social reputation never recovered from her association with the painting, and she was further ...
- John Singer Sargent's Venice: on the canals.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Adelson, Warren Oustinoff, Elizabeth November 1, 2006 700+ words
Mary Newbold Singer Sargent (1826-1906) required...the authors of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne and...So it was that John Singer Sargent never had a conventional...Salon entry of 1884, Madame X (Madame Gautreau...
- John Singer Sargent. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art Institute...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Danto, Arthur Coleman December 13, 1986 700+ words
John Singer Sargent Visiting the galleries of Baroque...shallowness and embourgeoisement. John Singer Sargent was among the unabashed Rubenses...outrage that his great portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau (Madame X) aroused when exhibited in...
- Visual Arts; John Singer Sargent comes home again _ in four exhibitions; The...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Silver, Joanne May 21, 1999 700+ words
...exhibitions of the work of John Singer Sargent. The painter of the Museum...including images of the scandalous Madame Gautreau (Madame X), Claude Monet, John D...shown at the MFA's "John Singer Sargent," on display from June 27...
- Sargent promoting Sargent. (John Singer Sargent's art exhibit)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt June 1, 1997 700+ words
John Singer Sargent's meteoric success coincided with...The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent, it comprises some thirty-five paintings...international scene. Canvases such as Madame X (Virginie Avegno Gautreau); Carnation...
- Portrait fo the artist; John Singer Sargent and Hub left their mark on each...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Palumbo, Mary Jo June 25, 1999 700+ words
...great 19th century painter John Singer Sargent may have lived in Europe, but...the major retrospective "John Singer Sargent" at the MFA through Sept. 26...portrait of the famed society queen, Madame X, which had created such a stir...
- Sargent in Washington.(works of artist John Singer Sargent will be exhibited in...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt March 1, 1999 700+ words
John Singer Sargent, perhaps America's most revered artist...retrospective exhibition entitled John Singer Sargent. Following its debut at the Tare Gallery...as Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose; Madame X; and The Daughters of Edward Darley...
- A salute to John Singer Sargent's art.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Geracimos, Ann February 19, 1999 700+ words
...century American painter John Singer Sargent was such a shy guy that it...a relative of the famous "Madame Pierre Gautreau, known to...s famous painting called "Madame X." Mrs. Parlange was wearing...covered all over with the words "Madame X" in gold. Her purse was...
- POSSESSIONS AND PROPS: THE COLLECTION OF JOHN SINGER SARGENT.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques FAIRBROTHER, TREVOR February 1, 2001 700+ words
...the death of the painter John Singer Sargent in 1925, his two younger sisters...striking, unfinished replica Madame Gautreau (Virginie Avegno; P1...aesthetic movement. He poses with Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), defending...