⊕ Click to zoom Violet and Silver—The Deep Sea
Price
$4,800
| Year | 1893 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 50.5 × 76.5 cm |
| Type | painting |
Whistler's seascape reduces the ocean to horizontal bands of violet and silver, its surface barely disturbed. The painting exemplifies his famous 'Symphony' and 'Nocturne' aesthetic — art freed from narrative, subject, and anecdote, existing purely for the arrangement of colour in space.
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