Saluting Sargent.(John Singer Sargent, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C)(National Gallery of Art in Washington)(Brief Article) Insight on the News | March 29, 1999| | COPYRIGHT 1999 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The first major retrospective of the great portrait artist since his death reveals him to have been a more versatile painter than supposed.

John Singer Sargent was one of the best-known and certainly one of the best-paid artists at the turn of the last century, but in the years following his death in 1925 his reputation went into a free fall. Part of the problem was that Sargent didn't paint like Picasso or Matisse and certainly not like Modrian, Kandinsky and other modern masters who dominated 20th-century art. Sargent by comparison was representational and ...

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