The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Bead-stringers dates from 1879/1880.

Bead-stringers, Private Collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 732).

Images

Subject

Site

Bead-stringers, Private Collection

Venice, Italy. The Calle de le Mende, off the Rio de le Toresele; through the archway can be seen the Fondamenta Ospedaleto. ¹

Technique

Technique

Bead-stringers, Private Collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 732).

History

Provenance

• 1880/1891: owned by Thomas Way (1837-1915) or his son Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London;
• 1891: sold to Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York dealer;
• By 1912: owned by his brother, David A. Kennedy (fl. 1895-1915).
• Before 1935: owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935);
• 1935: bequeathed to his widow, Katherine Geddes Benedict (1879-1961), and daughter, Mrs James Douglass Sharpe;
• 1962: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1962 (lot 9) and bought by Julius H. Weitzner (1896-1986) for Agnew's, London art dealers;
• 1965: sold to a private collector.
• 1980: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 17 October 1980 (lot 3, repr.) and bought by Dr John Larkin (n/a) and Mrs Larkin.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's time.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 732) as 'Bead-stringers'.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 78, 80, repr. pl. 83, view repr. pl. 84.Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 48-49, repr. f.p. 48.