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

 

YMSM 342
Pink and Grey: Fruiterer, Fulham

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1886
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Pink and Grey: Fruiterer, Fulham

Titles

Only one title is known:

  • 'Pink and grey – Fruiterer – Fulham' (1886, Dowdeswell). 1
  • 'Pink and Grey: Fruiterer, Fulham' (1980, YMSM). 2

The punctuation has been changed to 'Pink and Grey: Fruiterer, Fulham' for the sake of consistency with other titles.

Description

Judging by the title it showed a fruit shop!

Site

The Greengrocer's Shop, Paris, The Hunterian
The Greengrocer's Shop, Paris, The Hunterian
Chelsea Shop, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Chelsea Shop, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

A scene in Fulham, London, UK. Similar subjects include The Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [YMSM 372] and Chelsea Shop [YMSM 374].

Notes:

1: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 6).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 342).

Last updated: 1st April 2019 by Margaret