Study for "Spanish Dance"
Framed: 36 1/16 x 26 1/2 x 2 inches (91.6 x 67.31 x 5.08 cm)
John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 1–November 22, 1992 (National Gallery of Art only), no. 14 (as Study for “The Spanish Dance”).
España: American Artists and the Spanish Experience, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, November 12, 1998–April 4, 1999 (traveled), unnumbered.
As Study for "Spanish Dance" suggests, Spanish art was widely admired and emulated throughout the late 19th century, especially for its anti-academic and expressionistic attributes.
to Ralph Wormeley Curtis Jr., Paris, by bequest, 1922;
to Mrs. Ralph Wormeley Curtis Jr.;
to J. William Middendorf II, Greenwich, Conn., 1961;
to (Victor D. Spark, New York, 1965);
to Humbert and Julia Tinsman, Shawnee Mission, Kans., 1965;
to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 1983.
Evan Charteris, John Singer Sargent (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927), 282 (as Spanish Dancer. Study for Spanish Dancers).
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1955), 443.
Charles Mount, “New Discoveries Illumine Sargent’s Paris Career,” Art Quarterly 20 (Autumn 1957), 311, 315 (as Study for “The Spanish Dance”).
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, 2nd ed. (London: Cresset Press, 1957), 353.
Donelson Hoopes, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1964), unpaginated (as Study for the Spanish Dance).
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, 3rd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company; New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969), 462 (as Study for “At Seville”).
San Francisco Opera 69 (1991 Fall Season), 5, cover.
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 6, 125.
Alice Thorson, “Mysterious, Seductive and a Little Dangerous: John Singer Sargent’s Superb ‘El Jaleo’ Defies the Curse of Primitivism,” Kansas City Star, May 17, 1992, I1, I4 (as Study for the Spanish Dance).
Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff, “Sargent’s Spanish Dancer—a Discovery,” Antiques 141 (March 1992), 465, pl. 5.
Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992), 25, 148–50 (as Study for “The Spanish Dance”).
Brook S. Mason, “Americans in Spain at Hollis Taggart,” Art & Auction 21 (November 16, 1998), 66.
Owen McNally, “Spanishmania: Exhibit Shows Country’s Pull on U.S. Artists,” Hartford (Conn.) Courant, March 7, 1999, G4.
Dorothy Cantor and Laurene Buckley, “American Artists and the Spanish Experience,” Herald (New Britain, Conn.), January 25, 1999, B5 (as Study for Spanish Dance [El Jaleo]).
M. Elizabeth Boone, España: American Artists and the Spanish Experience, exh. cat. (New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1998), 93.
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Complete Paintings, vol. 4, Figures and Landscapes, 1874–1882 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 250, 255, 409.
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 1: 23, 222, 476-78 (repro.), 2: 211-12 (repro.).
