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Sargent (pretty much my favorite artist, if people haven't noticed) dropped a lot of values completely to black.
I studied an original of his not long ago in a museum which consisted of a man dressed in black on a black background. There was no differentiation between the figure and background in much of the area where the body would have been. I didn't have a problem with his use of values like that. I liked the drama of the piece and the sense of the figure emerging out of the mysterious shadows.
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