James McNeill Whistler · 1875
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
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Whistler's revolutionary atmosphere study — fireworks fading over Cremorne Gardens, painted so loosely that Ruskin sued him for libel and called it 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' Whistler won. Detroit Institute of Arts.
Up to 8 × 10 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket is a c. 1875 painting by James McNeill Whistler held in the Detroit Institute of Arts. The painting exemplified the art for art's sake movement – a concept formulated by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
All James McNeill Whistler prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
