“Madame X,” John Singer Sargent’s iconic lady with the pearls, was painted to be exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1884, but became the centerpiece in a scandal that dominated the exhibition and Sargent’s life and subsequent career.
Find out all the juicy details in one-man show “John Singer Sargent: Painting Madame X,” a densely packed 40 minutes with Bob Diven creating a performance portrait of the artist at 7 p.m. April 10 at the Taft Museum of Art in conjunction with From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum
on view at the Taft through May 11.
Diven doesn’t list credits as an actor – a painter and illustrator, he’s worked as art director and designer in television, publishing, advertising, film, and stage for more than 25 years.
Jackie Demaline
