John Singer Sargent: An American in Paris

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Event attendees are welcome to join us for a cocktail at 7:30 p.m. following the presentation.

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A discussion at the occasion of the Musée d’Orsay’s landmark retrospective of the American painter and his pivotal decade spent in Paris. 

Following its acclaimed debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, highlights Sargent’s pivotal decade in Paris, culminating in his controversial and career-defining Portrait of Madame X at the 1884 Salon de Paris. The exhibition is open from September 23, 2025 to January 11, 2026.

This public event follows a journée d’études at the museum from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The event will be held in French, with live translations in English. Learn more.

More details to come.

Venue

This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.

Reid Hall, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination are not responsible for the views and opinions expressed by their speakers and guests.

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