Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 1 Pupil

Catalonia and Occitania will commemorate the centenary of Conxita Grangé, the last Catalan survivor of the Nazi camps, in 2025. From now until the end of the year, exhibitions, lectures,...

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 1 Pupil

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were three dominant painters who flirted with Impressionism but retained conventional styles: Anders Zorn from Sweden, Joaquín Sorolla from Spain, and John Singer Sargent, an American expatriate who worked from studios in Paris and London. All three died in the 1920s, and this year we commemorate the centenary of Sargent’s death on 14 April 1925. This is the first in a series of six art…