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| John Singer Sargent, Young Girl Wearing a White Muslin Blouse, oil on canvas, 19.5x 15 inches. |
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Sargent show in New York
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4 comments:
I'm a huge Sargent fan and greedily lap up every tidbit of information on him that I can find. So I'm kind of surprised to see something in one of his paintings that bugs me: It's that hard line on (our) left side of the face. I find it distracting and the contour it makes seems a bit awkward and, actually, uncharacteristic of Sargent.
@tom hart
The space suit the girl is wearing is more of an eye catch for me than the left-side contour. Yet, I see the painting as probably just a study where high refinement was not even an issue at hand.
There's a couple of edges there that seem a little hard. The left side of the face, the shoulder on the left.....maybe the painting process was interrupted and never returned to. Great color though. Wouldn't re-gift it if someone gifted it to me!
Oh, yes, this is a beautiful painting despite my quibble. To be clear, that edge only stands out to me because in all the many Sargent paintings, including studies, that I've seen, I can't recall ever being bothered by anything else. I'm sure that edge wouldn't botther me so much if this wasn't a Sargent. That edge seems so intentional but yet, to my eyes, wrong.
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