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

 

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve

Provenance

  • 1890: bought from Whistler by John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929) , London;
  • 1919: bought by Colnaghi's and Knoedler's in partnership, 25 February;
  • 1919: bought by J. R. Annan, Glasgow art dealer, 2 June.
  • Date unknown: owned by Leonard Gow (1859-1936) , Helensburgh;
  • 1937: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 28 May 1937 (lot 31) as 'Tilly, a model', and bought by Colnaghi, London art dealers;
  • 1937: Knoedler's and C. Carstairs, New York art dealers, took shares, 31 May;
  • 1940: taken by Carroll Carstairs (1889-1948), New York art dealer, 29 May;
  • 1941: sold to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943)
  • 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

Exhibitions

  • 1905: probably Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 135) as 'Modèle drapé'.
  • 1905: probably Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 113a) as 'Model leaning forward … looking to right'.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret