REQUIEM FOR MADAME X (2025) By SLART "Madame X Tribute'

About the artwork "REQUIEM FOR MADAME X" (2025) by SLART

In his signature style, the artist SLART turns his focus to one of art history’s most talked about women: Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the person forever known as John Singer Sargent’s scandalous ‘Madame X’.

This piece is a full blown requiem. SLART frames her portrait inside a devotional heart, immediately shifting the narrative from one of public scandal to one of personal remembrance. He gives her back her full name, splitting “Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau” across a banner. A stark hourglass, a classic symbol of mortality, divides her identity.

SLART’s core message shouts loud and clear, “SO MUCH MORE THAN MADAME X,” rejecting the label that defined and haunted her.

The work is anchored by her death date, making her a real person rather than a timeless, controversial figure. It closes with a final blessing in her native French, “QUE DIEU AIT SON ÂME,” which translates to “May God have her soul.” It’s a raw, heartfelt attempt by the artist to rescue the woman from the myth and give her the peace she was so often denied.

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