Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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YMSM 521a
Marine

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899/1900
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 14.0 x 23.5 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/4")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: not original

Marine

Titles

Whistler's original title is not known. The suggested title is:

  • 'Marine' (1913, W. O'Leary). 1
  • 'Marine' (2015, Christie's). 2

Description

Marine, Private Collection
Marine, Private Collection

A seascape in horizontal format, showing a green sea breaking on a grey shore, under cloudy skies with patches of pale turquoise-blue. The beach runs at a slight diagonal from lower right up to left. The horizon line is slightly above centre. A very faint butterfly is at lower right.

Site

Marine, Private Collection
Marine, Private Collection
Marine, detail
Marine, detail
The Shore, Pourville, Ashmolean Museum
The Shore, Pourville, Ashmolean Museum
Green and Silver: The Great Sea, The Hunterian
Green and Silver: The Great Sea, The Hunterian

Possibly painted at Pourville on the French coast, like The Shore, Pourville [YMSM 521] and Green and Silver: The Great Sea [YMSM 518], reproduced above.

Notes:

1: Invoice with picture.

2: Christie's, New York, 19 May 2016 (lot 78).

Last updated: 18th October 2020 by Margaret