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Date

1908

Artist

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

Collection

Brooklyn Museum

Image Link

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/20375

Description

Sargent's extraordinary virtuosity is on display in 'Gourds', painted in Majorca in the summer or autumn of 1908, just months before the New York debut of his watercolors. In all of his garden watercolors, Sargent relied on the pictorial framework of sculptural forms to anchor his exuberant record of vivid light falling across leaves and flowers. Here the fruits, made luminous with thin washes and exposed areas of paper, punctuate a maze of layered colors and whorls of dashed, opaque highlights.
Descriptive medium: Opaque and translucent watercolor with graphite underdrawing
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Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum

Location

Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

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Fruits

Category

Glossary
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