We are pleased to publish online an article by Emily Eells devoted to the relationship between Marcel Proust and the painter James McNeill Whistler. On the occasion of the major retrospective that Tate Britain is currently devoting to the American artist, Mme Eells looks back at the admiration Proust held for him, at their one meeting, and at the visit the writer made, in June 1905, to the important Whistler exhibition held at the École des beaux-arts in Paris. Drawing in particular on a plan annotated in Proust's own hand, recently acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, this article offers an original reading of the works the writer was then recommending to his mother, and sheds light on the echoes of Whistler in À la recherche du temps perdu.
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