Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1892: 31st Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1892 (cat. no. 695) as 'Pink and Purple'.

On 30 January 1892 the Dundee Advertiser called it 'beautiful' and 'full of the refinement which distinguishes the best work of this much-criticized artist', which hardly helps to identify it. On 2 April the Glasgow Herald was a little more helpful:

'… The girls are not ravishingly beautiful, and would pass unnoticed in a crowd. Moreover, ... the pink and purple, with all deference to the artist, are practically non-existent. Mr Whistler's purple is black in ordinary light. But why nmake a fuss about so slight a matter, or, indeed, about anything at all, when J. M'Neil Whistler or his art is in question.'