书名：John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits / 约翰·辛格·萨金特：炭笔肖像画

作者： Richard Ormond

出版：Paul Mellon Centre，2025

装帧：精装，407页

语种：英语

尺寸：24.1 × 3.4× 30.5cm

一本全面的萨金特炭笔肖像画目录，捕捉了深刻变革时代的上流社会、各行各业和艺术风貌。

与约翰·辛格·萨金特（John Singer Sargent）的油画肖像相比，他的炭笔肖像相对鲜为人知。在这本权威性的新书中，理查德·奥蒙德（Richard Ormond）记录了构成萨金特作品这一独特脉络的近700幅画作。这些肖像画捕捉了19世纪末20世纪初英美上流社会的精髓，描绘了包括贵族、皇室成员、政治家、艺术家、作家、演员、金融家和慈善家在内的精英客户群体。萨金特的描绘对象中有阿斯特家族（Astors）、洛克菲勒家族（Rockefellers）、范德比尔特家族（Vanderbilts）、杜邦家族（Du Ponts）、威尔士王子和王妃、埃塞尔·巴里摩尔（Ethel Barrymore）、W. B. 叶芝（W. B. Yeats）以及温斯顿·丘吉尔（Winston Churchill）等杰出人物。

尽管萨金特以其女性画作而闻名，但这些炭笔肖像也揭示了他对描绘各类运动项目运动员的兴趣，从板球、击剑到足球和马球。从战前到战后主题的这种转变，以及他炭笔作品特有的更为简洁的风格，为萨金特对那个时期社会风貌的描绘带来了新的视角。

萨金特与他的赞助人之间留存下来的信件、当代日记中记录的回忆，以及大卫·麦基宾（David McKibbin）与肖像画模特的大量通信，既记录了这些肖像画，也生动地展现了这位艺术家工作时的人性一面。

由保罗·梅隆英国艺术研究中心发行 。

A comprehensive catalogue of Sargent’s charcoal portraits, capturing high society, professions, and the arts in an era of profound transformation

In comparison with his portraits in oil, John Singer Sargent’s charcoal portraits are relatively little known. In this authoritative new volume, Richard Ormond documents the nearly 700 drawings that make up this distinct strand of Sargent’s oeuvre. These portraits capture the essence of British and American high society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, portraying an elite clientele that includes aristocracy, royalty, politicians, artists, writers, actors, financiers, and philanthropists. Among Sargent’s subjects are such prominent figures as the Astors, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Du Ponts, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Ethel Barrymore, W. B. Yeats, and Winston Churchill.

Though renowned for his paintings of women, these charcoal portraits also reveal Sargent’s interest in depicting athletes across a variety of sports, from cricket and fencing to football and polo. This shift in subject matter from prewar to postwar, along with a sparser style characteristic of his charcoal work, casts new light on Sargent’s depictions of the period’s social landscape.

Surviving letters between Sargent and his patrons, reminiscences recorded in contemporary diaries, and David McKibbin’s extensive correspondence with sitters, both document the portraits and provide a vivid and human picture of the artist at work.

Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.