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A history of painting (1911)

Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928 · London and Edinburgh : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 289

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Balcony, then skipping a year he sentto the display of 1872, in his thirty-eighth year, the world-famousand powerful Portrait of Whistler s Mother—Arrangement in Grey andBlack, which now belongs to the French State. Thereafter Whistleronly sent once again to the Academy—an etching in 1879. In his… … OF PAINTING portrait of the little girl Miss Alexander, wherein the subtle atmosphere WHEREINof girlhood is caught with rare purity and exquisiteness. The WE SEEtenderness of the colours, the marvellous brushwork, the command MASS-of greys, alone raise Whistler in this canvas amongst the masters of…

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