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

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M.0427
r.: Designs for a fan; v.: Studies of a woman and a man

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1875
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: r: chalk and pastel; v: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 7/8 x 7" (277 x 178 mm)
Signature: three butterflies
Inscription: none

r.: Designs for a fan; v.: Studies of a woman and a man

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 427) as 'r.: Designs for a fan; v.: Studies of a woman and a man'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

SALE:

  • Benedict estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1962 (lot 2, repr.).
  • Christie's, London, 10 March 1972 (lot 99) as 'Studies of Fans'.
  • Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 4 December 1980 (lot 5, repr.) as 'Fans and Figures'.
  • Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 25 May 1988 (lot 63, repr.) as 'Fan and Figure Studies' withdrawn.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret