I have just been prompted to attribute this painting of mine (from an old blog post here) entitled "Flamenco" to John Singer Sargent. This I gladly do and apologise for not entitling it "After Sargent" in the first place.
I have been back to the original painting which is in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
and in the course of googling it I came across the impressive and invaluable John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery for which I am most grateful for Sargent's studies for the painting:
It is fantastic! I love the capture of a dance movement.
ReplyDeleteLove your "after"!. I remember the first time I saw the original and was astonished at its size and presence -one of my favorite pieces afterwards! A restaurant here in DC used to have a huge mural of it blown up on their wall -I was so sorry when they redecorated and they got rid of it!
ReplyDeleteHi Stefan, thank you so much for this. I can always rely on you to visit my poor blog which is permanently in intensive care, ready to flat line.
ReplyDeleteDon't let it flatline - your blog is too interesting for that. Intensive care is good and a full recovery is expected, my lady. Welcome back! How about taking your coat off and staying for a while?
ReplyDeleteThank you too, Blue, for your support. I know, I know, I must work harder at all this so the encouragement helps. x
ReplyDeleteFascinating, as always. And isn't it always a serendipitous treat to come upon something like those Sargent studies "after the fact",
ReplyDeleteas it were? In any case, I love your painting.
Dare I say it - I think you've got her left hand and right arm rather better than JSS!
ReplyDeleteExcellent subject. And love Sargent. And love you, too! xoxo
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr Worthington. Yes, after having my knuckles rapped it was good to take another longer look at El Jaleo.
ReplyDeleteTDC, good to see you! Forgive me not answering straight away but some of the comments went, unusually, into junk.
ReplyDeleteHow could YOU ever be junk??
Columnist ! I could hardly agree with you and yet, and yet, it is an attractive proposition thank you.
ReplyDeletePigtown Design, Meg - that's sweet, thank you. x
ReplyDeleteRoseeee, I miss U, : ) love Sophia and you, I started to write in english-moroccan because of you, hahaha, Viva Galápagos!!! Kisses babe
ReplyDeleteLove the sense of motion, the dance of colors. The first time I saw this at the ESG museum, I was astonished by the size. Then, if I'm recalling correctly, it was in a grotto like room and had up lights on the floor like an old stage. I admit, however, it's quite possible that time has made a mashup of that! I have lately grown smitten with Sargent's watercolors of North Africa which your blues so remind me of.
ReplyDeleteGlad you have surfaced. Always lovely to see you when you do.
Foquinha! Lovely to hear from you, keep being as crazy as ever. xx
ReplyDeleteHome, that's a nice reward for finally producing a post, hearing from you. Thank you. I am always a sucker for Sargent so I shall look at his North African watercolours now.
OLE! It's fantastic, the Sargent and the West, (has a lovely ring to it!) pgt
ReplyDeleteHey Gaye! great to see you. Cheered me up.. I am trying to recover from a form of pneumonia that has poleaxed
ReplyDeleteme for days..
I've had people ask me why I copy other artists' works. I usually tell them it's because the artists I'm copying would copy or interpret other's works to help refine their technique. It's also a fun exercise to try and get inside their head.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why anyone would be rapping your knuckles for this. There's too much occultism that's grown up around art; a silly veneration of all the wrong stuff.
Hi rurritable, I've seen your work and it works!
ReplyDeleteI often go to the National Gallery on Friday evenings with a drawing tutor from our excellent Prince's Drawing School (That's the Prince of Wales, the current one..) In the old days I'd have rushed it
but now I will sit down in front of a Poussin or Renaissance portrait for over two hours. For me it's important to get down the whole structure, fit in all those intersecting limbs etc, rather than just
do a detail.
How are your animals? Time I visited, sorry. I am just recovering from pneumonia but that won't work as a long term excuse.
I miss You, Roseee!! : (
ReplyDeleteGod bless you and the family! Love!!!