Titles

Suggestions for the title are as follows:

• 'Variations in Violet and Green' (1871, Dudley). 1
• 'Green & Pink' (1886/1887, Whistler). 2
• 'Variations in Violet and Green' (1980, YMSM). 3

'Variations in Violet and Green' is the preferred title.

Description

Variations in Violet and Green, Musée d'Orsay

The view of a river, in vertical format. At lower left, a woman is sitting on a bench with a woman standing to right of her on a riverside-road, which runs diagonally across the foreground from lower left, upwards to right. At lower right another woman stands looking over the shore to the river. A sailing boat is on the river, and in the distance there are grey buildings under a cloudy sky.

Site

The River Thames in Chelsea, London.

A copy of, or painting inspired by, this oil, was painted, possibly by Walter Greaves, and was by 2015 in a private collection.

Comments

Andrew McLaren Young (1913-1975) observed that the foreground arrangement was still reminiscent of Whistler's Greco-Japanese sketches of 1867-1870, but the setting, showing the Thames at Battersea Reach, presaged the Thames Nocturnes of the 1870s. 4