Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Individual Artist, Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers
| Author: | Donna M. Lucey | ISBN: | 9780393634785 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company | Publication: | August 22, 2017 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company | Language: | English |
| Author: | Donna M. Lucey |
| ISBN: | 9780393634785 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication: | August 22, 2017 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Language: | English |
**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection
“[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe**
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.
**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection
“[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe**
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.
