FRENCH LANGUAGE A talented draughtsman, master engraver and controversial painter, the American James McNeill Whistler, who divided his career between Paris and London, was the author of atmospheric masterpieces that focused on the harmony of forms and colors, with stylization quickly taking precedence over the realistic aesthetics of his early works. World famous during his lifetime, he was one of the models for the character of Elstir in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. After his marriage in 1888, he returned to live in Paris in the early 1890s. An intimate of Mallarmé, he was in
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