The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Paintings for exhibition in Antwerp was drawn in a letter from Whistler, in Paris, to William Stewart, in the late summer of 1894, regarding the hanging of pictures submitted to the Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, 1894.

Paintings for exhibition in Antwerp, Private Collection

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1427).

Images

Subject

Description

Paintings for exhibition in Antwerp, Private Collection

The relevant part of the letter reads:

'[p. 1] You might hang the panel like this //

[p. 2, five paintings numbered 1 to 5]

1. Nocturne Black & Gold - The Firewheel - (Hamburg.)

2. Valparaiso.

3. Rosa Corder.

4. The Little White Girl.

5. Nocturne Blue & Silver, Battersea Reach. (Hamburg)

Write us a line - Very sincerely JMcN Whistler'

Technique

Composition

Paintings for exhibition in Antwerp, Private Collection

The drawing shows Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel y169; Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and Green: Valparaiso y073; Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder y203; Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl y052; and Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Battersea Reach y152. Two were on exhibition in Große Kunst-Ausstellung des Kunst-Vereins in der Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, 1894.

Technique

Small, rough pen sketches, with bold vertical shading.

History

Provenance

• 1894: sent by Whistler to William Stewart, New York.
• Date unknown: bought by an art dealer;
• 1994: bought by a private collector;

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1427).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1427) as 'Paintings for exhibition in Antwerp'.