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The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World
October 29, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. In his recent book The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World and in this talk, Wellesley College historian Paul Fisher explores the enigmas of fin de siècle sexuality and art, fashioning a biography that grants the man and his paintings new and intense life.
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