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

 

M.0776
A Red Note

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Whereabouts unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: ca 11 13/16 x 6 11/16 ca (300 x 170 mm)
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

A Red Note

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 43) as 'A Red Note'.
  • 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 38) as 'A Red Note – Venice'.

It was priced at 30 guineas in 1889, but remained unsold, and was returned to Whistler after the exhibition by Wunderlich's on the SS Servia. 1

Notes:

1: G. Dieterlen, H. Wunderlich & Co., to Whistler, 1 November 1889, GUW #07187.

Last updated: 2nd April 2021 by Margaret