John Singer Sargent
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John Singer Sargent
In a Levantine Port
ca. 1905 – 1906
Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing on paper
12 1/16 x 18 1/8 in. (30.6 x 46 cm.)
Brooklyn Museum
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“’Impressionism’ was the
name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content
with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as
everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took
place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).”
White Ships by John Singer Sargent
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“A person with normal
eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of ‘Impressionism’ unless
he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.”
Simplon Pass: Reading (1911) by John Singer Sargent
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Portrait of Madame X by John Singer Sargent