Provenance

• By 1905: owned by William Heinemann (1863-1920) , London;
• 1922: sold at auction, New York, American Art Association, 13 Januay 1922 (lot 206) as 'Portrait of a Lady Reading'.
• 1941: bequeathed by Dr Max A. Goldstein (1870-1941), St Louis, to his grandson, St Louis, Missouri;
• 1981: sold to a private collector, Florida;
• 1986: bought by Hope Davis, New York art dealer, who sold it to a private collector;
• 2019: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 17 September 2019 (lot 57), $11,875.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1611).

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 126) as 'Girl Reading'.