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Introduction
'Madame Hessel on the sofa'
'Bathers, Dieppe'
'Echo and Narcissus'
'Vespers'
'Blackberry Gathering'
'Bust of Alfred Wolmark'
'Under the Hammer'
'Mrs Mounter'
'Hazel in Rose and Gold'
'The Fever Van'
'Landscape of the Moon's last phase'
'The Liverpool Cityscape'
'Interior at Paddington'
'Creation and Crucifixion'
'Baby in pram in garden'
'Three Self Portraits with a White Wall'
'Falling warrior'
'Primordial Image'
'Hamburg Painting No. 2'
'March 1963'
'Hermaphrodite'
'Pin Up 1963 - For Francis Bacon'
'Yellow, Blue and Violet'
'Gespenstische Gestalt'
'Alesso 'B''
'Peter getting out of Nick's pool'
'Meat Painting II - In Memoriam Rene Magritte'
'Louis XV Rigaud'
'Still life: Autumn fashion'
'Broken Bride 13.6.82'
'Cow Mutations'
'Pall: Ixion'
'Landscape'
'Handles'
'Blotter'
'Double-Tongued Knowability'
'Harmony in Green'
'Willendorf Venus'
'Exposed Painting: Cadmium Orange on White'
'English Family China'
'Mirage'
'Super Star...'

'Vespers', John Singer Sargent, 1909

On the right a dark, shadowy figure is contrasted against a pathway set between a doorway and a set of columns.

Oil on canvas, 71 x 91.5cm

Accession Number WAG2634

Rapid, dazzling brushwork made Sargent the outstanding portraitist of his day. His virtuoso technique is here applied to a outdoor scene. It was painted during a visit to Corfu in 1909. Its spontaneity and rendering of sunlight is similar to the work of the French Impressionists.