Study of Apollo for "Apollo and the Muses"
1921
charcoal
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1921
charcoal
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
You see a man standing tall in charcoal and graphite. His muscles flex under smooth, layered lines. Sargent sketched him to prep a bigger artwork. This is one of many figure studies Sargent made. He liked to work out poses first. The paper shows faint grid lines underneath—he used them to plan. Check out more of Sargent’s figures at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
