Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dandy's pose. But most of the Edwardians represented at the museum (the Phelps Stokeses, the Wyndham sisters, Mme. Gautreau, Miss Ada Rehan, Henry Marquand) had sought out, or been sought out by, the slickest and most fashionable painter of their day to immortalize them -John Singer Sargent...
Hals Remembered. Painter Sargent was 45 when Edward VII became king, and it was already quite the thing to be "painted by Sargent." He was a portly, generous gentleman, more at home with his fellow expatriate Henry James than with the eccentric Bohemians of the art world. He resisted the Pre-Raphaelites and "Ruskin, don't you know . . . silly old thing." He ignored the principles of art for art's sake, detested Gauguin and Van Gogh. His advice to one of his own disciples: "Begin with Franz Hals, copy and study Franz Hals, after that go to Madrid...
...that he began to define a portrait as "a likeness in which there was something wrong about the mouth." But he always refused to change his work. Once, a lady complained about the way he had done her nose. "Oh, you can alter a little thing like that," said Sargent, quickly handing her the portrait, "when you get it home...
...judge," Sargent once said of his portraits. "I only chronicle." Whether he liked it or not, Sargent's faithful chronicles, with all their style and grace, are what he is remembered for, a quarter century later...
...huge, unlit Albert Hall, while cleaners dusted, the critics and the curious watched as Sir Malcolm Sargent stopped the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the 18th time to cry "No, no! ... Back to bar 175 again." Finally, looking at his watch, he muttered, "Only two minutes more. My God, I must have this again." Composer Schnabel, bent over his score, nodded his huge, bristly head with sympathy. Two years ago, the Minneapolis Symphony had taken 25 rehearsals before it dared to give Schnabel's treacherous piece its first U.S. hearing...