James McNeill Whistler - Variations in Violet and Green 1871
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Variations in Violet and Green 1871
61x35cm oil/canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
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From Musée d'Orsay, Paris:
Whistler was a refined aesthete and one of the most sensitive interpreters of the fashion for the arts of the Far East which spread through Europe from the 1860s. Variations in Violet and Green marks the apogee of Whistler's Japanese period. The painter has literally transposed the banks of the Thames, the original theme of the composition, into the pictorial world of Japanese prints, devoting his painting entirely to the power of evocation rather to description.