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Whistler and His Mother: A Story of Bankruptcy, London's Bohemia, and America's Most Famous Painting - Softcover
A greater contrast between Whistler's outrageously flamboyant life - he was famously a friend of Oscar Wilde and Dante Gabriel Rossetti - and the subdued, touchingly melancholic style of the painting of his Puritan mother is hard to imagine. Painted in 1871, at the height of the Victorian age of family values, Whistler gave the painting the provocative modernist title "Arrangement in Grey and Black". While restoring the painting for the Louvre, Sarah Walden was intrigued by its extraordinary and complex history which has hitherto never been fully uncovered. Delving deep in sources not available in the UK, she wrote this book of its complex birth which reads like a detective story. Her view of restoration (for which she received the support of Ernst Gombrich) is that it is more than a technical job, involving an aesthetic and historical approach.
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About the Author:
Sarah Walden studied art history and is one of the world's leading restorers of old masters and an outspoken critic of work. She restored Whistler's Mother for the Louvre and while researching the work was captivated by the work's intricate history. Her previous book, The Ravished Image, was published by Weidenfeld with a foreword by Gombrich.
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- PublisherGibson Square Books Ltd
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1903933501
- ISBN 13 9781903933503
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages242
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