John Singer Sargent: Oversize Edition

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) possessed, as Henry James observed, a genius so fully formed at the outset that it seemed to need no apprenticeship. From the audacious Madame X to the enigmatic Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, from thousands of luminous watercolors painted across Europe and America to his grand Boston murals, Sargent’s artistry was both expansive and enduring.

Carter Ratcliff captures this breadth with a biography as incisive as it is stylish, tracing the expatriate milieu of Sargent’s youth and illuminating each phase of his career. Now presented in an oversize edition with 310 color illustrations, many at full-page scale, this definitive monograph includes a new preface and updated bibliography, reaffirming Sargent’s place as one of the great masters of modern portraiture.