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Only one title has been suggested:
The White Symphony: Three Girls [YMSM 087] had been exhibited with the title 'Symphony in White and Red' in 1874 and 1887-1888) but this has been altered to avoid confusion.
'Symphony in White and Red' is the preferred title.
A figure composition in horizontal format. Several woman in draped robes stand or sit on a balcony beside the sea. Two or three figures at left, ascending the steps, are indicated very roughly indeed. The central figure, descending the steps, wears a white robe and a pale mauve or blue scarf that blows upwards to the left, behind her; she has a pale purple head-band round her light brown hair. Just to right of centre, a seated woman in a pink robe holds up a red fan. In the lower right foreground there is another figure, sitting on the ground, very roughly indicated.
Unidentified.
1: Letter to C. L. Freer of 14 December 1903, Freer Gallery Archives.
2: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 20).
3: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 14).
Last updated: 23rd November 2020 by Margaret