Nocturne: Dance House 1889 James McNeill Whistler American Densely etched and deeply inked, this work is among Whistler’s finest late etchings. The illuminated windows belong to a tenement that backs onto the Zeedijk canal in Amsterdam’s red-light district. As in his Venetian twilight subjects from the previous decade, Whistler focused on a confluence of water, crumbling architecture, and reflected light but here heightened the darkness and sense of abstraction. In 1890, the artist’s "Amsterdam Set" was exhibited by the dealer Robert Dunthorne in London, then in New York at the Grolier
Nocturne: Dance House 1889 James McNeill Whistler American Densely etched and deeply inked, this work is among Whistler’s finest late etchings. The illuminated windows belong to a tenement that backs onto the Zeedijk canal in Amsterdam’s red-light district. As in his Venetian twilight subjects from the previous decade, Whistler focused on a confluence of water, crumbling architecture, and reflected light but here heightened the darkness and sense of abstraction. In 1890, the artist’s "Amsterdam Set" was exhibited by the dealer Robert Dunthorne in London, then in New York at the Grolier Nocturne: Dance House 372623
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