[Whistler, James M.]:

$125 · Offered by William Reese Company

EDEN VERSUS WHISTLER THE BARONET & THE BUTTERFLY. A VALENTINE WITH A VERDICT. Collection of discourses, newspaper accounts, etc., all concerning the dispute between Sir William Eden and Mr. Whistler, the former having commissioned a portrait of his wife from the latter, resulting from the artist's refusal to surrender the picture. The whole intending to prove a point: "The Absolute Right of the Artist to control the destiny of his handiwork - and, at all times, and in all circumstances, to refuse its delivery into unseemly and ridiculous keeping." Handsomely printed in France, but with a New York imprint.

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