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

 

Portrait of the artist

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 423) as 'Portrait of the artist'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITIONS:

  • 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. 113b) as 'Portrait of the Artist'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 123) as 'Portrait de Whistler'.

SALE:

  • Sotheby's, London, 9/13 December 1889 (lot 1140) as 'His own Portrait'.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 196 (cat. no. 256).

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 3) as 'Portrait of the Artist'.

SALE:

  • Lord Leverhulme sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 4 March 1926 (lot 354, repr.) as 'The Artist's Self-Portrait'.
  • Christie's, London, 1 December 1961 (lot 10) as 'Self-portrait'.
  • Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 7 June 1979 (lot 681, repr.) as 'Self Portrait'.
  • Christie's, London, 26 November 2020 (lot 72), as 'Portrait of the artist'.

NOTE: Labels suggest it was at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, possibly about 1960, and either there or in another gallery or sale (cat. no. 191) at some time.

Last updated: 3rd February 2021 by Margaret