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

 

M.0999
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream laid paper with embossed head of Michelangelo and heading of 'INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS', with address, crossed out, and watermark of a shield, helmet and Prince of Wales Feathers
Size: 7 15/16 x 4 15/16" (202 x 126 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'same size. with very great care'; v.: '5 ¼ x 2 3/4 / 10 x7" / Pale cream / 3/4 gold flat / strand/ "Sarasate./ by J. McN. Whistler', in unknown hands

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate'

Provenance

  • 1885: probably sent to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, Charles Morley (1853-1916) , who owned it in 1905.
  • 1951: with Kennedy, New York art dealers.
  • 1990: bought from a private collection by Childs, Boston art dealer;
  • 1990: bought from Childs Gallery by a private collector.

Exhibitions

  • 1905: 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. 182) described as 5 ¼ x 2 ¾", 'Butterfly signature to right at bottom.'

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret