'The best painting Sargent ever painted...'

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	• John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo Mary Crawford Volk Natl Gallery of Art, 1992 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews
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A classic title... Already!

Any serious student of the arts should read this. And you need to go to the Gardner in Boston to see the painting too. It's just mind blowing.
People want $140 bucks and up for this paperback. Don't pay it.
I got mine at the Gardner for ten bucks, lost it in Katrina, waited and got a used one for twenty. Or search the library.
it's paperback- and owning one is a trust, they are limited. It needs to be reissued.

So Seargent and Manet and a few other young artists ran of to Spain to squander a little youth- and some amazing things came of it. Historians of all kinds seem to have blackballed Spain, but this book is about a journey and the amazing painting that came of it.
If you can't buy it- find one and read it.

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'The best painting Sargent ever painted...'

An excellent history and detailed analysis of the classic painting by John Singer Sargent. Although known mostly as a nineteenth century portaitist, Sargent's depiction of a Spanish dancer in El Jaleo received much critical acclaim. The book traces Sargent's artisitic influences and fascination with Spanish culture which inspired him to paint El Jaleo. There is also a great section featuring many of Sargent's early sketches and design studies. This book is a great reference for anyone interested in Sargent or this masterpiece of his early works.