Description

The title Pink and Purple suggests a figure composition or single draped figure.

On 2 April 1892 the Glasgow Herald mentioned details:

' "Violet and Yellow" (No. 692) and "Pink and Purple" (No. 695) are drawings which cannot be said to be specially distinctive. The girls are not ravishingly beautiful, and would pass unnoticed in a crowd. Moreover, ... the pink and purple, with all deference to the artist, are practically non-existent. Mr Whistler's purple is black in ordinary light.'

The first mentioned was probably Violet and Gold [M.1292], which may mean that Pink and Purple was a similar subject.