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Highlights and Reflections

The Women of Alfred Stevens and other artists.

THE RED DRESS

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Charles Webster Hawthorne,

The Red Dress, 1915

JAMES WHISTLER ~ THE POETRY OF SIGHT

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Symphony in White (1865) by James Whistler

Whistler painted his lover Joanna Hiffernan. This painting shows her beautiful profile while reflected in the mirror.

The white of the dress is the dominant color in this painting.

Joanna has been Whistler’s lover for seven years, then she met his friend, the artist Courbet and became his lover.

“Just like music is the poetry of sound, painting is the poetry of sight, and this has nothing to do with a harmony of sound or color”

James Abbot Whistler

JOSEPH RODEFER DECAMP ~ THE BLUE MANDARIN COAT

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“The Blue Mandarin Coat” 1922

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858 -1923)

JOHN SINGER SARGENT ~ CASHMERE SHAWL

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“Cashmere Shawl” 1910 by John Singer Sargent
American 1856 – 1925

ALFRED STEVENS ~ PAINTER OF SAD MOODS

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Alfred George Stevens, a native of Brussels, spent much of his career in Paris where he was regarded as one of the most important recorders of the bourgeois and aristocratic levels of la vie moderne.
1823-1906

ALFRED STEVENS ~ THE JAPANESE MASK

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The Japanese mask 1877 by Alfred Stevens

ALFRED STEVENS ~ FEMME AU CHALE DES INDES

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Femme au châle des Indes dans un atelier by Alfred Stevens

ALFRED STEVENS ~ THE BATH

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The bath (1867) by Alfred Stevens

ALFRED STEVENS ~ LA PARISIENNE JAPONAISE

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La Parisienne Japonaise by Alfred Stevens

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