John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal

This book is just beautiful. I am happy to just page through the excellent illustrations and then read as much as I am in the mood for. I am an artist, and I am actively creating life drawings and portraits. I have found this book to be an excellent stop when I wonder, how would Sargent have dealt with this.

The reproductions are good enough that you get the feeling that you are seeing the original. One can see details of Sargent's techniques. A wonderful buy for the price.

Great artist's resource when learning to draw portraits. And fascinating information. He made compacted balls of bread to lift pigment instead of kneadable eraser. Which may not have existed at that time? Spending good amount of time reading and looking again and again.

Excellent book and treatment of the subject. I love Sargent’s paintings and was unaware that he had done so many charcoal portraits. This is a beautiful book with lots of excellent photos of the charcoal portraits. I bought the book as a gift for an artist friend who had just returned from a visit of the Morgan Library and Museums’s exhibit of these charcoals. She highly recommended a visit and I hope to be able to do so while it is at the Morgan.

“John Singer Sargent, Portraits in Charcoal” is an elegant catalog written by Sargent’s grand-nephew and eminent art historian, Richard Ormond. The book accompanies the exhibition, also curated by Mr. Ormond, of Sargent’s charcoal portraits on display at the Morgan Library in New York. I was fortunate to enjoy the exhibition earlier this month and can revisit the portraits and the biographies of Sargent’s sitters in this beautifully written and designed catalog. I recommend this book for anyone who loves Sargent’s work and wants to learn more about the bold and inimitable charcoal portraits he did later in his prolific career as an artist who was mainly known for his oils and watercolors.

Lots of info about the social milieu in which he prospered. The many portraits are well reproduced. Each work is a lesson.

Very happy

If you are a fan of Sargent, this book is a MUST HAVE!

Ritratti stupendi. Bella edizione di stampa buona. Acquisterei altri volumi di questo pittore! Peccato che gli unici disponibili sono cataloghi della collezione molto costosi.

edição fabulosa, reprodução de extrema qualidade. feita com muito capricho para os fãs desse grande artista!

アトリエの大きさには、驚かさせられる。天井から降り注ぐ 光の状態も安定して対象物が見られる。 何と言っても肖像画の上手さには圧倒される。油絵の自画像作品も1点 ある。鉛筆を持って描いている写真もある。 正装した男女の人物画の上半身が多いが、立像の作品もある。 90点程掲載されているが、腕の確かさを感じさせられる。 チャコールがメインで描かれているが、グラファイトの作品もある。 最後のページにオリジナルのフレームとラベルの見本がある。 サージェントの魅力を知る上での本になると思う。

Exceptional quality of reproduction. Inspired by the commentary but most of all, by the portraits, by the charcoals, chosen.

This really is a great coffee table book. The reproductions are excellent