Violet and Silver—The Deep Sea

Preis

$4,800

Jahr1893
TechnikOil on canvas
Abmessungen50.5 × 76.5 cm
Typpainting

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.