Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas - Hardcover

Lucey, Donna M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393079031 ISBN 13: 9780393079036

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives.,

Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life in a Rocky Mountain castle; Elizabeth Chanler stepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend's husband; as the veiled image of Sally Fairchild emerged on the canvas, her sister was lured into an ill-fated life in art; and shrewd Isabella Stewart Gardner collected both art and young men. Born to unimaginable wealth, these women lived on an operatic scale; their letters and diaries create a rich depiction of the Gilded Age and the painter whose canvases defined the era.

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Críticas

"It [Sargent's Women] tells of an era long gone yet still fascinating." -- Choice "[These women] were smart, passionate, willful, adventurous and striking-looking.... Lucey's prose is invitingly conversational and quick-flowing." -- The Washington Post "As rich as [Sargent's] portraits are, the textural evidence in which Ms. Lucey ensnares them is finer still." -- The Wall Street Journal "[Lucey pieces together] lost stories, and the stormy brew of scandal and repression that affected these women-and Sargent himself." -- Elle "Straight from the pages of a novel by Edith Wharton or Henry James." -- The Times "Ingenious." -- Frances Wilson - Times Literary Supplement

Biografía del autor

Donna M. Lucey is the author of the New York Times best-selling Archie and Amelie and other books, the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants, and a 2017 writer-in-residence at Edith Wharton's The Mount. The media editor at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, she lives in Charlottesville.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393079031
• ISBN 13: 9780393079036
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336