Sargent and Paris

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Gifts for art lovers. By Stephanie L. Herdrich With contributions by Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, Caroline Elenowitz-Hess, Erica E. Hirshler, Elaine Kilmurray, Richard Ormond, Paul Perrin, and Hadrien Viraben In 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went to Paris to become a painter. Ten years later, he would become an art-world sensation when he sparked controversy with his scandalous portrait Madame X at the 1884 Salon. Sargent and Paris focuses on this decisive early decade in the…