January 12, 1856– John Sger Sargent The qutn remas: Was he gay? I have always felt that I uld tell om his work and sensivi that he was gay, but we will probably really never know about the sex life of one of my favore artists, John Sger Sargent. It seems almost unbelievable now, but I
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If he was gay, he certaly uldn’t be open about . A “nfirmed bachelor” like his close iend Henry Jam, Sargent was Osr Wil’s neighbor for a time and lived unr the shadow of Wil’s trials, which tablished the emergence of the homosexual inty, closely associated wh artists, and new laws that broaned the crimalizatn of gay activi. His secret life started crackg when dozens of timate, sensual, voyristic, and openly homoerotic male nu drawgs surfaced after his ath.
However, the first reference to his possible homosexualy didn’t appear prt until 1981. One of Sargent’s leadg scholars, Trevor Fairbrother, has said that this patg nfirmed his sense that Sargent was gay. The pater Jacqu-Ée Blanche clared that “Sargent’s gay sex life Paris and Venice was posively sndalo.