Bound Man — Sargent Tapestry Blanket
Bound Man — Sargent Tapestry Blanket
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Alongside his celebrated society portraits, John Singer Sargent undertook major mural commissions later in his career, including cycles for the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, projects that required extensive preparatory figure studies drawn from live models. This double-sided sheet, showing a bound male figure on both its front and back, reflects that working method, in which Sargent worked out pose, musculature, and gesture in charcoal before translating the figure into a finished mural composition. Such studies, often more expressive and immediate than the murals themselves, are prized today for revealing Sargent's draftsmanship at its most direct.
Jacquard-woven as a soft, double-sided tapestry throw with fringed edges — a warm layer for the sofa or bed.
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This is genuinely one of the nicest things we own now. Owning Bound Man means more to me than generic art ever could, and Sargent is part of that.
The subject is exactly what I wanted and the reproduction is only okay. People who know Sargent recognize Bound Man immediately and then start hunting for flaws.
The reproduction quality is the best I have seen anywhere near this price. The detail in Bound Man holds up with my face inches away. The image is so clean that I have looked at it with a magnifier. My whole family has commented on it and they never notice anything. This is what buying online should feel like.
This is my fourth order from this shop and the standard has not slipped once. My guests ask about Bound Man before anything else in the house.