Lot Essay
This painting, executed in the early 1880s, will be included in Margaret MacDonald's forthcoming catalogue raisonne of Whistler's work.
Property from the Estate of JANET KOHLMEYER, New Orleans
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903)
Details
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903)
Arrangement in Black: Reading
-- oil on panel
10 x 7 3/4 in. (25.5 x 19.8 cm.)
Arrangement in Black: Reading
-- oil on panel
10 x 7 3/4 in. (25.5 x 19.8 cm.)
Provenance
Alexander Henderson
Andrew Laird
D.W.T. Cargill, Lanark
Christie's, London, (Sale: May 2, 1947, lot 45)
Colnaghi & Co., London
Leggatt, London
W.S. Robinson, London
Sotheby's, London, (Sale: December 3, 1958, lot 89)
Tooth, London
Weitzner, London and New York
Lawrence Fleischman, Detroit
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Andrew Laird
D.W.T. Cargill, Lanark
Christie's, London, (Sale: May 2, 1947, lot 45)
Colnaghi & Co., London
Leggatt, London
W.S. Robinson, London
Sotheby's, London, (Sale: December 3, 1958, lot 89)
Tooth, London
Weitzner, London and New York
Lawrence Fleischman, Detroit
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Literature
London, Sunday Times, April 15, 1887
A.M. Young, M. MacDonald, R. Spencer and H. Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980, p. 126, no. 224, pl. 141
A.M. Young, M. MacDonald, R. Spencer and H. Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980, p. 126, no. 224, pl. 141
Exhibited
London, Dowdeswell, Notes-Harmonies-Nocturnes, May 1884, no. 26
Dublin, Dublin Sketching Club, Leinster Hall, Annual Exhibition of
Sketches, Pictures & Photography, December 1884, no. 254
London, Royal Society of British Artists, Pall Mall East, 64th Annual Exhibition, March-August 1887, no. 25 or no. 155
Munich, Munchener Jubilaums-Austellung, Internationale Kunst-Austellung, 1888, no. 59
New York, H. Wunderlich & Co., Notes-Harmonies-Nocturnes, March 1889, no. 25
London, New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Feb.-April 1905, no. 71
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria , circa 1950
New York, Knoedler & Co., Notes, Harmonies and Noctures, Nov.-Dec. 1984, no. 20
Dublin, Dublin Sketching Club, Leinster Hall, Annual Exhibition of
Sketches, Pictures & Photography, December 1884, no. 254
London, Royal Society of British Artists, Pall Mall East, 64th Annual Exhibition, March-August 1887, no. 25 or no. 155
Munich, Munchener Jubilaums-Austellung, Internationale Kunst-Austellung, 1888, no. 59
New York, H. Wunderlich & Co., Notes-Harmonies-Nocturnes, March 1889, no. 25
London, New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Feb.-April 1905, no. 71
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria , circa 1950
New York, Knoedler & Co., Notes, Harmonies and Noctures, Nov.-Dec. 1984, no. 20