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

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M.1239
Three butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: conte crayon
Support: white card
Size: 7 7/16 x 8 3/4" (189 x 222 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: none

Three butterflies

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1239) as 'Three butterflies'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr., pp. v, 116, 123.

Catalogues 1906-Present

SALE:

  • Christie's, London, 13 March 1981 (lot 1) as 'Three Butterflies'.

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret