John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is most well known as a portraitist, but recent scholarship has revealed a much broader artistic reach. During his long career he painted more than 2,000 watercolours, on his travels through Europe, the Middle East and America. Sargent's approach to the medium was unorthodox. He overturned traditional compositional standards and developed an audacious and sophisticated technique, working in bold, fluid strokes, creating unconventional and abbreviated forms and eloquent surface textures. This new volume, which accompanies an exhibition opening in June 2017 at Dulwich Picture Gallery, features works from museum and private collections in the UK, France, Spain Switzerland, (including many from the collection of the author Richard Ormond). Contemporary photographs of the artist and his models put the finished works in context.
