Whistler once undertook to get a fellow-painter's work into the autumn salon. He succeeded, and the picture was hung. But the painter, going to see his masterpiece with Whistler on varnishing day, uttered a terrible oath when he beheld it. "Good gracious," he groaned, "you're exhibiting my picture upside down." "Hush," said Whistler. "The committee refused it the other way." i
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2211, 5 September 1910, Page 7
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