Provenance

• 1910/1918: possibly sold by Frida Uhl Strindberg (1872-1943) to William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925) , London art dealer.
• 1923: with Knoedler's, New York art dealers (label);
• 1981: bought by Thomas Colville (n/a) , New York art dealer;
• 1981/1984: bought by Ira Spanierman (n/a) , New York art dealer;
• 1984: bought by Knoedler's;
• 1986: sold to a private collector.
• 2013: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 31 October-1 November 2013 (lot 12) as 'Study for At the Piano'.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 539).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.