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TURKEY IN BRONZE BY JOHN SINGER SARGENT

Courtesy of Ferargil Galleries

rhat John Singer Sargent practiced the art The splendor that was in Sargent at his best is

of sculpture is little known. Until the auc- shown in the mere dimensions of this crucifix

tion sale of his private collection of pictures which is eighteen feet high and thirteen feet across

in London last summer his only work in this form the arm of the cross. It is a far cry from this to

of art ever seen in public was a great bronze his bronze turkey, reproduced herewith, the soli-

crucifix designed for the Boston Public Library tary example of his sculpture appearing in the

but first shown in the Tate Gallery in London, now famous auction sale. The bronze was

two twenty-two

DECEMBER I 925