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Description: | Unmounted s. in stone with butterfly; u.l. CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PRINT GOULDING, Frederick (English; 1842-1909) This is a posthumous printing. After Whistler?s death in 1903, his heir and sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip, commissioned the London printer, Frederick Goulding, to print posthumous editions of many of Whistler?s lithographs. Between October 1903 and May 1904, Goulding pulled impressions from 94 stones and transferred and printed 10 previously untransferred lithographic drawings. "The Duet" depicts Whistler?s wife, Beatrix, and her sister, Ethel Birnie Philip, playing together at a piano. The atmosphere is nocturnal and the scene is lit by the light of a small lamp. Strong contrasts exist between the deep shadows surrounding the central figural group and the areas of illumination, such as the sisters? faces and Beatrix's forearms. When Thomas Way returned proofs of this image to Whistler in Paris, Whistler took an immediate dislike to it. Despite Way trying to convince him of the merit of the work, Whistler stated "But "The Duet" won?t do . . .". However, he was eventually convinced otherwise and additional impressions of this lithograph were pulled. (See also GLAHA 49081-49085/49372/49373/49592/49593).
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : BEATRICE WHISTLER : ETHEL BIRNIE PHILIP : ETHEL WHIBLEY : PIANO : MUSIC : PAINTINGS : INTERIOR : 110, RUE DE BAC : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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