Pomegranates
1908
John Singer Sargent
American, born Italy, 1856-1925
American Art
Inspired by the lush vegetation on the island of Majorca, Pomegranates features the fruits in close-up, some bursting open in flashes of red seeds, amid dense green foliage. Sargent omitted all spatial reference points (sky or ground) and extended the tapestry of colors and textures to the edge of the sheet, thus heightening the decorative two-dimensionality of the composition. In certain passages his energetic, gestural brushwork eclipses readable form, suggesting that he was testing the boundaries of modernist abstraction.
- Maker/Artist
- Sargent, John Singer
- Classification
- Watercolor
- Formatted Medium
- Opaque and translucent watercolor with graphite underdrawing
- Medium
- opaque, translucent, watercolor, graphite, underdrawing
- Dimensions
- 21 3/16 x 14 7/16in. (53.8 x 36.7cm) frame: 35 13/16 x 27 13/16 x 1 7/16 in. (91 x 70.6 x 3.7 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 09.832
- Credit Line
- Purchased by Special Subscription
- Exhibitions
- John Singer Sargent Watercolors, Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
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