Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 344
Sargents portraits wouldseem to suggest more a criticism than an appreciation. Thepainter, in a word, is roundly accused of envisaging hismodel as from a vast height, and employing in his renderingof an object analytical qualities rather than any other. Thesitter is at once a problem and a subject,… … CARMENCITA 257 cool. It is discretion itself. One might say it was Olym-pian in its detachment. As a matter of fact, the artistseye, though so alert, is tempered by a curiously sobered judg-ment. The hand so audaciously dexterous at moments, isrestrained by the nice eclecticism of the stylist. To…
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