12-03-2023, 01:22 PM
epub | 20.12 MB | English | Isbn:9780393356168 | Author: Donna M. Lucey | Year: 2017
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Quote: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 Globe
In 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.