Sargent's Women reveals a new perspective on the early career of John Singer Sargent by exploring his unique artistic approach and the relationships he developed with the exceptional women in his life. From 1878 to 1890, the artist was strongly attracted to distinctive women and exotic subjects. Inspired by the revelation of a recently solved mystery as to the identity of a woman named Am,lie Gautreau, Warren Adelson, president of Adelson Galleries, decided to mount Sargent's Women as a way of examining the relationships that Sargent cultivated with the many extraordinary women in his life.

Sargent's Women

Arts & Photography

Adleson, Warren

History & Criticism

Adelson Gallery

<p>Long known for her endearing renderings of maternal imagery and for her exploration of the theme of 'modern woman', Mary Cassatt has not been properly recognised for her pioneering role in the Impressionist movement or for her often extensive experimentation in new artistic theories or mediums. This book reveals, for the first time, a large and previously unknown group of pastel counterproofs by Cassatt. These counterproofs, which are literally mirror images of her pastels, produced by taking an impression of that original on a second sheet of paper, were a novel enterprise. This book, produced in conjunction with an exhibition at Adelson Galleries in New York, includes plates of all fifty counterproofs in full colour as well as additional colour and black and white illustrations of related works and other material pertaining to Cassatt's career. Several essays explore this rarely studied medium and its place within a fruitful period of experimentation in pastel and colour printmaking among the art</p>

Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt

Pinsky, Susan

Rosen, Marc

Reference

<p>Pierre-Auguste Renoir is the Impressionist artist most indelibly associated with an idyllic vision of modern life, captured in paintings of charming young girls, bohemian outings, round-cheeked children, and voluptuous bathers, all presented with breathtaking spontaneity. While his principal medium was oil painting, he produced exquisite pastels and watercolours in which his deft touch and supple colourings were especially effective. Renoir's pastel counterproofs, never-before exhibited or published, range across the spectrum of his subjects, from the mid-1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century. There are compositions related to one of his most famous paintings, the Moulin de la Galette , and a few are also clearly related to the artist's most famous colour lithographs. The counterproofs, reverse impressions taken from a pastel or drawing, were done in association with his dealer Ambroise Vollard, who stored them in a portfolio, where they remained unseen for nearly a century. This cat</p>

Renoir: The Pastel Counterproofs

Adelson, Warren

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