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JOHN MARIN Near Quai d'Ivry, Paris.
Etching on cream laid Japan paper, 1906. 150x198 mm; 6x7 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 30. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early print.
Marin (1870-1953) made his first etchings in Paris in 1905. For several years thereafter he worked in and around Paris, Amsterdam and Venice, producing a group of some 100 etchings that come closer to Whistler's general aesthetic than the work of any other American artists save for the "Duveneck Boys" in Venice in the early 1880s. Marin become acquainted with Whistler's work as a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1899.
While not slavishy copying Whistler's style, Marin's debt to Whistler is best summarized by Zigrosser, who compiled the complete catalogue of Marin's etchings: "What Marin borrowed from Whistler was perhaps the device of the vignette and a feeling for crowds in motion, but what he learned chiefly were certain principles which the whole Impressionist group held in common, namely the insistence on the integritiy and immediacy of the visual impression, and delight in the surface intangibles of light and movement," (Zigrosser, p. 11). Zigrosser 18.
