Provenance
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1901: with the Goupil Gallery, London;
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1902: bought from
William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925)
, art dealer, London, by
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919)
, Detroit, August 1902;
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1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more]
(cat. no. 1031).
Exhibitions
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1901: probably
Spring Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, London, 1901 (cat. no. 31) as 'The Seashore'.
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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. 147) as 'The Sea Shore'.
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1905:
Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 104) as 'The Sea Shore'.
By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be exhibited in another venue.