Provenance
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1894: bought from Whistler by
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919)
, Detroit, 23 November;
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1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more]
(cat. no. 1392).
Exhibitions
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1903:
Seventy-second Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903 (cat. no. 4).
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1904:
Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 111) as 'Blue and Gold. The Rose Azalea'.
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1905:
Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 138) as 'Blue and Gold. The Rose Azalea'.
By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.