Provenance

• 1929: sold by J. & W. Rosenheim & Co. at Christie's, London, 8 April 1929 (lot 105) as 'Three Ladies in Red, on a terrace', and bought by Neasson or Pearson, £12.1.6;
• Summer 1930: bought by the writer and collector Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) , of High Beech, Essex;
• 1946: sold at auction by Sotheby's, London, 20 March 1946 (lot 241) as 'Symphony in Red', and bought by Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London dealers, for £390.0.0;
• 1946: bought by John Bryson (1896-1976) , Oxford;
• 1960: bought from him through Durlacher, New York dealers, by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for $12,000 ( Emily Louisa Ainsley (b. 1847) Fund).

The provenance before 1929 is unknown.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.