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

 

M.1087
Note in flesh colour and orange

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1886
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pastel
Support: brown paper
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Note in flesh colour and orange

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 38) as 'Note in flesh colour and orange'.

Kay thought 'the woman's hips a little too broad for beauty', which is not much help in identifying the drawing, except to indicate that it was the figure of a woman. 1

Notes:

1: Kay, Charles de, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, pp. 1-3, at p. 2.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret