Sargent s Women Four Lives Behind the Canvas

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Sargent s Women Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Sargent s Women Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Author : Donna M. Lucey
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Language : English
Release Date : 22 August 2017
ISBN : 9780393634785
Pages : 320 pages
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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.

Sargent s Women Four Lives Behind the Canvas

Sargent s Women Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey

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

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