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Ethel
Barrymore
John Singer
Sargent
-- American
painter
1903
Authentication
Pending
Private
collection
Charcoal
drawing
Inscribed by
Sargent
and in this case also by Barrymore
Jpg: Hayes McNeill
The drawing
may be
original or may be a print of a Sargent “Mug” which is then
inscribed
by Ethel Barrymore which she may have given out to close
friends. Another drawing -- original I assume -- has turned up
at Adelson Galleries -- see below. There is obviously a difference
between the two.
It appears that Sargent did more than one drawing -- this one above
being the main one. However my feeling is that Ethel wouldn't have
signed an original -- I mean she might have been vain but that's
pretty extreme, and I'm finding other instances where the sitter had
prints made of Sargent's "Mug" drawing which they then gave out to
close intimates. That may be what this is.
In her autobiography, Ethel used a print of Sargent's "Mug" on the dust
jacket which was discovered recently by the JSS Gallery's own Francesca
Miller -- (see thumbnail right).
I would think whether it is a print or a charcoal on paper original
could be pretty easily determined
It
is
fortunate that we have a photograph of him drawing her:
Sargent
Drawing Ethel
Barrymore
Photo
1903
Notes:
Special
thanks to Hayes McNeill, for sending the image and Genway Gao who re-sized
and stretched the image to its true proportion, both friends
of the JSS Gallery.
- See the year in
review 1903
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Ethel
Barrymore
1903
Pencil on paper
Adelson Galleries
Ethel
Barrymore
Print
(featured on dust jacket of
her autobiography)
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