James McNeill Whistler - Arrangement in Yellow and Grey: Effie Deans 1878

Nocturne Trafalgar Square Chelsea Snow 1877 Study for Mouth of the River 1877 Arrangement in Brown and Black. Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder 1878 Arrangement in Yellow and Grey. Effie Deans 1878 Nocturne Black and Gold. The Rag Shop, Chelsea 1878 Nocturne in Blue and Silver 1878 Nude Reclining 1878
Arrangement in Yellow and Grey: Effie Deans 1878

Arrangement in Yellow and Grey: Effie Deans 1878
194x93cm oil/canvas
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands

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From Rijksmuseum Amsterdam:
Whistler considered the formal and painterly qualities of his works more important than any reference to what they depicted. He often gave paintings musical titles indicating the colours in the composition. This is one of a series of studies he called ‘Arrangements’; it later acquired a literary sub-title Effie Deans referring to the heroine of Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Heart of Midlothian.