Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X.
Hardbound
2003 · New York
by Davis, Deborah
New York: Tarcher-Penguin, 2003. Hardbound. VG/VG. Brown boards and spine with copper lettering and illus. dj; 310 pp. with 8 pp. of color and bw illustrations. Explores the story behind John Singer Sargent's "Madame X," a painting of twenty-three-year-old Amelie Gautreau which unleashed a storm of controversey when it was unveiled at the Paris Salon to show the young wife with one strap of her gown falling off her shoulder, and provides insights into the lives of the artist and his subject. (Inventory #: 108736)