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

 

The Dancing Girl

Provenance

  • Date unknown: with Closson Galleries (label).
  • By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) , New York, probably until at least 1910.
  • Date unknown: acquired by Edwin A. Seasongood (1876-1953) , financier, New York, NY and Evanston, OH;
  • 1951: E. A. Seasongood sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 5-6 November 1951 (lot 303).
  • 1990: sold at Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1990 (lot 50, repr.) and bought by Mr and Mrs Richard Waitzer;
  • By 2018: private collection.

For full known provenance see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 379).

Exhibitions

  • 1904: probably Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 129) as 'The Dancing Girl'.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret