John Singer Sargent in his studio at 41 Boulevard Berthier in Paris, ca. 1884, with his famous painting Madame X. Sargent faces his painting The Breakfast table, in progress on the easel. Photographer unknown. Photographs of artists in their Paris Studios,...

BASEL.- Since its founding eleven years ago, the Fondation Beyeler has focused on art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its collection presentations and changing exhibitions. Yet we have always been aware of the fact that modern art did not...

John Singer Sargent (United States, 1856–1925), Dolce Far Niente, 1907, oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches. Brooklyn Museum , Bequest of A. Augustus Healy PORTLAND, MAINE.- This fall the Portland Museum of Art will present an in-depth study of Impressionist...