Titles

Only one title is known, with varying capitalisation:

• 'Nocturne in blue and gold' (1875, Brighton). 1
• 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

The Brighton Gazette on 9 September 1875 compared this painting with Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge [YMSM 140] and described them as 'all blue, almost monotone':

'Viewed by close inspection they appear like very bad attempts at scene painting; heavy leads of colour dashed with a few intermediate forms; nothing more. But we have need to retreat to a distance and ... there is nature itself painted in so few strokes that they can almost be counted.'

The Brighton Herald on 11 September 1875 commented,

'Mr. Whistler uses nothing but blue – light blue and dark blue, with drops of silver and gold for fire. The landscape, of course, is unimpeachable.'

Unfortunately these descriptions could apply to several Nocturnes (such as Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights [YMSM 115] or Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Battersea Reach [YMSM 119]).

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