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Auguste Rodin called John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) the "Van Dyck of our times." Sargent was the unrivaled recorder of male power and female beauty in a day that, like ours, paid obsessive court to both. He could make old money look dashing and paint the newest cotton-reel magnate as though he were descended from Bayard. Sixty years after his death, his "paughtraits" (as Sargent, who kept swearing he would give them up but never did, disparagingly called them) provoke unabashed nostalgia. In his Belle Epoque sirens, in the mild, arrogant masks of his Edwardian gentry, are preserved...
...word of caution is needed: Sargent's output was huge -- more than 800 portraits and innumerable sketches of people and places -- but its high points do stand out, and too many are missing here, from El Jaleo, 1882, the flamenco scene that is the masterpiece of his youth, to the Tate Gallery's portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, which, when exhibited in Paris before World War I, sent its public into raptures over ce grand diable de milord anglais. This show says little about its subject that was not put more economically by the 1979 Sargent exhibition at the Detroit Institute...
Political consultant Jack Flannery, a former aide to Republican Governor Francis Sargent, called the impending appointment less a victory for the state's Republicans than "a victory for Massachusetts Reaganites...
...exchange for the Russian paintings, the U.S. will send 65 American paintings from approximately the same time period--including works by Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent--to Leningrad and Moscow museums...
Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 defended the decision at the time, saying, "It doesn't make a great deal of sense to continue the all-male sections in Lamont. After all, this is a joint education...