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

 

M.1204
Flesh Colour and White

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888/1889
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pastel
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Flesh Colour and White

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 58) as 'Flesh Colour and White'.

It was priced at 40 guineas in 1889, but remained unsold, and was returned to Whistler after the exhibition by Wunderlich's on the SS Servia. 1

Flesh Colour and Rose, Fogg Art Museum
Flesh Colour and Rose, Fogg Art Museum

It is likely that this is in fact the pastel Flesh Colour and Rose (Fogg Art Museum), illustrated above.

Notes:

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

Last updated: 25th June 2021 by Margaret