Arts & Entertainment
DIA Downtown: A High-Fashion American Icon
American artist's painting is one of seven works on display in downtown Birmingham this fall.
A digital reproduction of Madame Paul Poirson from 1885 by American John Singer Sargent decorates the side of a building at 138 W. Maple Rd. The piece is part of the Detroit Institute of Arts' (DIA) Inside|Out program which takes art reproductions to the streets of suburban Detroit communities.
This is what the DIA had to say about Madame Paul Poirson:
In her high fashion satin gown, Madame Poirson looks dressed for a dazzling event. And she probably was. As a member of elite society in the 1880s, she mingled with the rich and famous. In fact, she hired one of the most famous portrait painters in Paris — an American — to create this picture.
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