Nocturne: Dance House, 1889, Etching and drypoint; fourth state of six; printed in dark brown ink on medium weight ivory laid paper, Plate: 10 1/2 × 6 9/16 in. (26.7 × 16.6 cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), 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
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