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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> During his lifetime Whistler moved from a position rooted in the study of seventeenth-century Dutch art and contemporary naturalism and realism to an aesthetic based in the study of the art of Greece and Japan. Born in America raised in Russia educated in Paris and resident in London Whistler was the product of no single country or school. Like the “butterfly” which he took as his symbol he moved easily from one to the other carried influences back and forth across the Channel and created a new synthesis of his own. Throughout his life Whistler remained devoted to etching. It was not a secondary medium; from the time of his earliest days at the Coast Survey in 1855 until his last holiday on the island of Corsica in 1901 he made 450 etchings and laid down his needle only for two seven-year intervals. The great variety of style found in his etched work shows him as a printmaker of great integrity who never ceased to search for new “variations” on old “themes” which while they were always based in nature became increasingly suggestive and abstract. He was compared to Rembrandt by his contemporaries. (MP)