Studies for "Dancing Figures"

1919-1920

John Singer Sargent

Associated Names
John Singer Sargent

Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

The image shows a sketch with two partial views of a human form from behind. The first figure on the left displays the torso and arms, with the left arm raised above the head and the head turned slightly to the left. The second figure on the right extends from the upper body to the legs, with the right leg slightly behind the left. The sketch focuses on the body forms, which are nude, showing contour and shading. The background is plain and unadorned.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Violet Sargent Ormond (sisters of the artist), Surrey, England; National Gallery (now known as the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, DC, 1929, left in storage at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • "Sketch Everything and Keep Your Curiosity Fresh": Sargent Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999

Bibliography

1967

  • Gross, Ellen, and James Harithas. Drawings by John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Alhambra, California: Borden, 1967.

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 110, no. 728.

  • Nygren, Edward J. John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983, p. 82, no. 66.

Inscriptions

upper left in charcoal: Lilian White; right center in charcoal: grasshof; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 10.2.3; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: 7 [circled]; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 10.2.3; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 10.2.3

Watermarks

L. BERVILLE (FRANCE) / Lalanne

Wikidata ID

Q64584078

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