Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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YMSM 043
Sea Piece

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 81.0 x 130 cm (31 7/8 x 51 1/8")
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown
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Sea Piece

Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

  • 'sea piece' (1862, Whistler). 1
  • 'Sea Piece' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

Described by the artist as 'A sea piece of deep tone.' 3

Site

Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz, Hill-Stead Museum
Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz, Hill-Stead Museum

Guéthary, Basses-Pyrénées. The only extant sea-piece from this trip is Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz [YMSM 041].

Notes:

1: 18 October [1862], GUW #09187.

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 43).

3: Whistler to G. A. Lucas, 18 October [1862], GUW #09187

Last updated: 26th November 2019 by Margaret