Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: llex Wood, Majorca

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
llex Wood, Majorca
Image View: 
Overall view without frame
Creator: 
John Singer Sargent (American painter, 1856-1925)
Location: 
repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. (CTB.1997.34)
Location Note: 
Paseo del Prado, 8
GPS: 
+40.416111-3.695
Date: 
1908 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
European
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
57 cm (height) x 71 cm (width)
Subjects: 
botanical; landscape
Description: 
Sargent first visited Majorca in the summer of 1908 and then returned with his traveling companions, Eliza Wedgewood and his sister Emily, for a more extended stay in September. He stayed at Villa Son Mossenya, an old house in the picturesque village of Valldemossa on the mountainous western side of Majorca. Ilex Wood, Majorca was retained by the artist until his death. When first exhibited in 1948, the painting was praised by the critics for its "tapestried weavings of forms and colors into a brilliant expression". Ilex is the scientific genus name for Holly, of which there are about 480 species world-wide. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-SARGENT-TBM-IWM-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.