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

 

M.0852
Harmony in Flesh Colour and Pink

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881/1882
Collection: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown
Accession Number: 1937.D1.94
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper
Size: 6 7/8 x 4 3/8" (176 x 111 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: 'Harmony in Flesh Color & Pink -'

Harmony in Flesh Colour and Pink

Harmony in Flesh Colour and Pink dates from 1881/1882, and is a drawing of the oil portrait that was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1882 as 'Harmony in Flesh-Colour and Pink – Mrs. H. B. Meux' and renamed Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux [YMSM 229] for Whistler's retrospective in 1892. 1 The drawing was signed with a second butterfly, probably in 1891.

Harmony in Flesh Colour and Pink, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Harmony in Flesh Colour and Pink, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 852).

Notes:

1: VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 48); Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 43).

Last updated: 29th April 2021 by Margaret