Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea 1871
Oil on woodsupport: 502 x 608 mm frame: 685 x 825 x 45 mm
painting
Bequeathed by Miss Rachel and Miss Jean Alexander 1972. T01571
"It has always been mildly upsetting to see Whistler in Turner's shadow. It's the site-specific quality in Whistler rather than the grand allegories of Turner which draw me in. Site-specific and bordering on abstraction, devoid of queasy narrative or maundering description. You can practically feel the roar of the speeding cars and lorries from the embankment in this view of the Thames..."
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