Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Ellen 'Nellie' Millicent Ashburner Cobden, Mrs W. R. Sickert (1848-1914) ;
• 1914: Estate of Mrs E. M. Cobden;
• Date unknown: according to Agnew's, at some time in the collection of Ralph T. King (d. 2018), Cleveland, OH.
• 1979: sold by Eugene V. Thaw (1927-2018), New York dealer, to Agnew's, London dealers;
• Date unknown: sold to Ralfe A. Whistler, England;
• 1984/1985: bought by Knoedler-Modarco S.A., New York dealers, and sold to Transco Energy Co., Houston, Texas;
• 1992: at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 3 December 1992 (lot 38) as 'Seascape, Dieppe', bought in;
• In or after 1992: bought by a private collector.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1041).

Exhibitions

• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 111) as 'The Opal Sea'.