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

 

Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 229), plate 144, as 'Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux'.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 690, 852).

Authored by Whistler

  • Goupil Gallery and James McNeill Whistler, Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces [portfolio of photographs published after the Goupil Gallery Exhibition, March-April 1892], London, 1892, repr. pl. 22.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 48) as 'Harmony in Flesh-Colour and Pink – Mrs. H. B. Meux'.
  • Annual Exhibition of Sketches, Pictures & Photography: A Loan Collection of Pictures by Mr Whistler ..., Dublin Sketching Club, Dublin, 1884 (cat. no. 243).
  • Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 43) as 'Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux'.
  • Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Champ-de-Mars, Paris, 1892 (cat. no. 1066) as 'Harmonie en gris et rose – portrait de Lady Meux'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Bradford Observer, Bradford, 1 May 1882, pp. 3-4, at p. 4.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', London Daily News, London, 1 May 1882, pp. 5-6.
  • 'Demiton' (Mirbeau, Octave), Paris-Journal, 4 May 1882.
  • Anon., 'Fine Arts', Graphic, London, 6 May 1882, p. 11.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery. – I', St James's Gazette, London, 6 May 1882, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'Special Correspondence', Aberdeen Free Press, Aberdeen, 12 January 1892, p. 5.
  • Anon., Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle, Swindon, 16 January 1892, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'Art Exhibitions. Mr. Whistler's Pictures', St James's Gazette, London, 21 March 1892, p. 12.
  • Anon., 'Latest News', The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 21 March 1892, p. 7.
  • Anon., Yorkshire Post, Leeds, 21 March 1892, p. 4.
  • Anon, 'Mr. Whistler's Works', The Graphic, London, 26 March 1892, p. 26.
  • Mirbeau, Octave, Le Figaro, Paris, 6 May 1892.

Journals 1855-1905

  • The Art Journal, London, 1882, p. 189.
  • Punch, 27 May 1882, caricature repr. p. 241.
  • Sickert, Walter Richard, 'Whistler To-day', The Fortnightly Review, vol. 57, new series, vol. 51, April 1892, pp. 543-47.
  • Pottier, Edmond, ‘Les Salons de 1892, I’, Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 7, June 1892, pp. 441-67, at p. 455.
  • MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, 'Mr Whistler’s Paintings in Oil', The Art Journal, 1893, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 89.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, p. 95.
  • Galassi, Susan, and Helen Grace Burnham, 'Lady Henry Bruce Meux and Lady Archibald Campbell', in: MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 30, 157-178, 220, repr. fig. 165.
  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, pp. 63, 68, repr. p. 69.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 301, 308-309; vol. 2, p. 35.
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, London and New Haven, 2007, pp. 161-62, repr. p.162.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 184, 189, 203.
  • Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, p. 123.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 64-66, 137.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 47.

Books, General

  • Cox, Devon, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street, London, 2015.
  • Ludovici, Anthony, An Artist's Life in London and Paris 1870-1925, New York, 1926, p. 91.
  • Montesquiou, Robert de, Les Pas effacés: Mémoires, 3 vols, Paris, 1923, p. 255.
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, p. 93.
  • Sweeney, J. L. (ed.), The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts by Henry James, London, 1956, pp. 209-210.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • The Frick Collection, Handbook of Paintings, New York, 2004.
  • The Frick Collection (ed.), Paintings: American, British, Dutch, Flemish and German,, vol. 1, Princeton, 1968, pp. 18-20.

EXHIBITION:

  • Whistler, Women and Fashion, The Frick Collection, 2003: see MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, chapter 8, pp. 157-78.
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 88 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Starr, Sidney, 'Personal Recollections of Whistler', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 101, April 1908, pp. 528-37, at p. 528.
  • Sickert, Walter, ‘Where Paul and I differ’, Art News, No. 14, 10 February 1910, p. 113.
  • 'The Lost Lady: What became of a Whistler', The Graphic, 25 March 1911, p. 18, 'A caricature of Whistler painting simultaneously his three portraits of Lady Meux' by C. H. E. Brookfield repr.
  • 'Portraits New and Old in London', Arts & Decoration, 1921, vols 15-16, p. 174.
  • Sutton, Denys, ‘Whistler and Lady Meux’, Journal of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1974, pp. 36-43, at pp. 38-43.

Websites

  • The Frick Collection website at http://collections.frick.org/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:288.
  • Sheers, Joana, The Frick Collection website at http://www.frick.org/interact/whistlers-harmony-pink-and-grey-portrait-lady-meux.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 159).

Other

  • Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.

Last updated: 31st December 2020 by Margaret