Titles

Whistler's original title is not known. Only one title is recorded:

• 'Nude Girl with a Bowl' (1970, exhibition catalogue, Nottingham). 1
• 'Nude Girl with a Bowl' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

A figure composition, in vertical format. A young woman, nude, bends over to left, her left hand on her knee, and her right arm stretching down and forward to a pot plant. She has curly brown hair in a fringe that falls forward over her eyes. She wears a dark green cap or kerchief (shaped like a Phrygian bonnet) on the back of her head, bound with pink ribbons, the tag ends sticking out over her fringe. Behind her is a grey wall and either a grey chequered curtain or trellis at left.

Sitter

The model is unknown.