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 ...

Sargent and Paris at the Met delivers a cultural polyglot with a French soul. I’m relieved to confess something I’ve believed from my earliest days as an art historian. John Singer Sargent is a great ...

How does a young American artist move to Paris, make friends and influence people, incite a scandal, and then keep on painting? With a little help from his friends. Courtesy of MFA Boston, Musee ...

The newly discovered masterpiece has drawn comparisons to Madame X, and is having its public debut in a new blockbuster Sargent exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay. John Singer Sargent's Madame O'Connor ...

(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 ...

The arrangement between an artist and a patron can be a delicate one, filigreed with implicit understandings and potential hazards. Patrons often provide financial help in return for the chance to ...

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 ...