After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ...

An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

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The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

Now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Madame X (1883–1884) is today regarded as Sargent’s most iconic portrait. The daring composition will soon star in the ...