Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket

James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)

c. 1875

Oil on panel

23.7 × 18.3 inches (60.3 × 46.4 cm)

Collection: Detroit Institute of the Arts number 46.309

Provenance: Artist sold to Samuel Untermyer, New York, 1892; Untermyer family's sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 10, 1940, lot 29. Charles Sessler, Knoedler, New York. Scott and Fowles, New York, 1946 Acquired in 1946.

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Bibliography

Flint, Kate. "Fireworks." Interdisciplinary Studies of the Long Nineteenth-Century. 25 (2017): Technologies of Fire in Nineteenth Century British Culture. Web. 18 February 2018.

Merrill, Linda. A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Whistler, J.M. . Mr Whistler’s “Ten O’Clock”. London: Chatto and Windus, 1888.

Wilmer, Clive. “The Falling Rocket: Ruskin, Whistler and Abstraction in Art” Victorian Web. [Complete text].

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