Robert Sterling as a collector of Sargent. (works of painter John Singer Sargent in Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

The Magazine Antiques | October 1, 1997| | Copyright

In November 1913, while living in Paris, Robert Sterling Clark acquired John Singer Sargent's Venetian Interior - his first purchase of a painting by an American [ILLUSTRATION FOR PLATE I OMITTED].(1) The work shows seven women talking and stringing beads in the hallway of a darkened palazzo. Several wear black shawls against the cool dampness of the room. The dark colors of these wraps merge with the shadows, allowing the figures' few touches of brightness - skin, hair, and clothing - to capture the viewer's attention and direct it, apparently randomly, throughout the scene.

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