New John Singer Sargent exhibition charts the star portraitist’s rise

Singer Sargent's Capri on display at the Met in New York - Arts Culture and Style

The iconic Bay of Naples island of Capri is on display in a new, monumental exhibition that the Met in New York, in collaboration with Paris's Musée d'Orsay, is dedicating until August 3 to American artist John Singer Sargent, which includes the infamous M... (ANSA)

New John Singer Sargent exhibition charts the star portraitist’s rise

The show at New York’s Met covers Sargent’s journey to becoming the hottest portrait painter in Paris, and includes his infamous Madame X.

Kenwood House hosts Sargent Exhibition

From 16 May to 5 October, Kenwood House is hosting the exhibition Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits.  This exhibit showcases portraits by the famous painter, John Singer Sargent and includes the so-called ‘dollar princesses’, wealthy American women who married British aristocrats. The exhibition will explore the real lives of the women, including a future wartime nurse, a helicopter pilot and Britain’s first sitting female MP. The exhibition…

The focus, as the title explains, is John Singer Sargent in Paris, the epilogue is the iconic Madame X that shocked the public and critics at the Salon of 1884, causing the painter to move to London. But there is also Capri in the new, monumental exhibition that the Met, in collaboration with the Musée d'Orsay, dedicates until August 3 to the American artist famous for his portraits of good transatlantic society. In an effort to illustrate the p…

The Met Casts New Light on the Oeuvre of John Singer – SURFACE

A forthcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Singer and Paris," showcases the undersung role that architecture, the Old Masters, navigating shifting class dynamics, and, yes, the artist's time in Paris, played in his genre-defining artistic evolution. Installation view of Sargent and Paris, on view April 27-August 3, 2025 at The Metropolitan Museum of […]