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Sargent's Women

Four Lives Behind the Canvas

Donna M. Lucey

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English
Norton
03 September 2018
In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects' lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society's rules.

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Imprint:   Norton
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 211mm,  Width: 142mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   277g
ISBN:   9780393356168
ISBN 10:   0393356167
Pages:   336
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas

[These women] were smart, passionate, willful, adventurous and striking-looking.... Lucey's prose is invitingly conversational and quick-flowing. -- The Washington Post It [Sargent's Women] tells of an era long gone yet still fascinating. -- Choice As rich as [Sargent's] portraits are, the textural evidence in which Ms. Lucey ensnares them is finer still. -- The Wall Street Journal [Lucey pieces together] lost stories, and the stormy brew of scandal and repression that affected these women-and Sargent himself. -- Elle Straight from the pages of a novel by Edith Wharton or Henry James. -- The Times Ingenious. -- Frances Wilson - Times Literary Supplement


  • Winner of Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award 2018

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