Man and Pool, Florida (1917) by John Singer Sargent Size:70x100 cm / 28x40″ This illustration was created for

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Man and Pool, Florida (1917) by John Singer Sargent Size:70x100 cm / 28x40″ This illustration was created forPainted in 1917 at Vizcaya in Miami, Man and Pool, Florida shows one of the muscular labourers Sargent used as models while the Deering estate was under construction. In watercolour, gouache and graphite, he turns a workman into something almost Arcadian, poised beside a luminous pool in the preserved subtropical landscape. No named sitter is recorded, but the intimacy matters: like Sargents other late male figure studies, it lets sunlight, water and