Provenance
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1881: owned by
Thomas Way (1837-1915)
and passed to his son,
Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913)
, London;
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ca 1913: acquired, possibly after T. R. Way's death, from his widow, by
Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930)
;
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1930: bequeathed to his daughter
Sybil Christina Waller (1882-1973)
;
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1965: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 12 November 1965 (lot 36) as 'Sketches and Notes', and bought by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
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1965: bought by
Shirley Latter Schlesinger Kaufmann (Mrs Robert B. Kaufmann) (1916-2003)
;
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1972: given, in exchange for lithographs, to the University of Glasgow.
Note: this document was not part of the Whistler estate.
For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more]
(cat. no. 839).
Exhibitions
It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Although this list of paintings, which includes many major works such as Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother
[YMSM 101], may relate to a planned exhibition of Whistler's work, no such exhibition has been identified.