The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: The Blue Girl; v.: Woman holding a fan dates from 1888/1893.

r.: The Blue Girl, Terra Foundation for the Art

v.: Woman holding a fan, Terra Foundation for the Art

Images

Subject

Sitter

Unidentified.

Technique

Composition

v.: Woman holding a fan, Terra Foundation for the Art

The pose of the nude on the recto is related to that in several other studies including Draped nude m1222.

v.: Woman holding a fan, Terra Foundation for the Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1223).

History

Provenance

• 1905: sold by Knoedler's, London and New York art dealers, to Blanche Elisabeth Marchesi (1863-1940).
• Date unknown: possibly owned by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914).
• 1920: sold by David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), London art dealer, to Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 9 July;
• 1920: transferred to Knoedler's and sent to New York, 23 October;
• 1921: sold to Marshall Field III (1893-1956), Chicago, in May 1921;
• 1930/1938: passed to his ex-wife, Evelyn M. Field, later Mrs Diego Suarez (1888–1979);
• 1980: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 22 May 1980 (lot 103) and bought by a private collector;
• 1984: sold by Knoedler-Modarco S.A., New York, to Daniel J. Terra (1911-1996);
• 1999: passed to the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, Chicago;
• 2004: following the closure of the Terra Museum of American Art, works on paper were transferred on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 79) as 'The Blue Girl.'

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1223) as 'r.: The Blue Girl; v.: Woman holding a fan'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 79) as 'The Blue Girl.'

Websites

• Terra Foundation website at https://collection.terraamericanart.org.