Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas

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 GlobeIn 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. 8 pages of color illustrations

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🗸 Author(s): Donna M. Lucey
🗸 Title: Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
🗸 Rating : 4.4 from 5 stars (181 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
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🗸 Supported Devices: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle

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