Stéphane Mallarmé
1892, published 1893
James McNeill Whistler American, 1834-1903
United States
Introduced by Claude Monet, the poet Mallarmé and Whistler became friends in 1887 and remained close until Mallarmé’s death in 1898. Each man played a role in the other’s publishing projects; Mallarmé translated the “Ten O’Clock” lecture into French, and Whistler produced this lithographic portrait for Mallarmé’s 1893 book of poems, Vers et prose.
Transfer lithograph in gray-black on grayish ivory wove paper, laid down on off-white plate paper (chine collé)