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

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Variations in Violet and Green

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 104), plate 69, as 'Variations in Violet and Green'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 5th Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil, under the Management of the Committee of the Dudley Gallery, London, 1871 (cat. no. 225) as 'Variations in Violet and Green'.
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 81).

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The Dudley Gallery', The Examiner, London, 28 October 1871, pp. 11-12.
  • Anon., 'Fine Arts. Oil Pictures at the Dudley Gallery', Illustrated London News, London, 28 October 1871.
  • Anon., 'Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures', Morning Advertiser, London, 10 November 1871, pp. 2-3.
  • Anon., 'Dudley Gallery. - Cabinet Pictures in Oil', The Times, London, 14 November 1871, p. 4.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Fine Arts, Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil,' The Athenaeum, London, 28 October 1871, p. 565.
  • Anon., 'The International Society's Whistler Exhibition', The Studio, vol. 34, April 1905, pp. 223-35, repr. p. 225.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907 (cat. no. 430).
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, frame repr. f.p. 120.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 186-87, 636, 656.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 58).
  • Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, pp. 94, 101-02.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 122.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 63.

Books, General

  • None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 24).
  • Le Japonisme, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1988.
  • Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 25).
  • Rêve et réalité - Collections du Musée d'Orsay, Kobé and Tokyo, Japan, 1999.
  • Art Nouveau 1890-1914, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2000.
  • Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin, Nancy, France, 2006.
  • Monet y la abstraccion, Madrid, 2010.
  • Debussy, la musique et les arts, Paris and Tokyo, 2012.
  • MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014 (cat. no. 37).

SALES:

  • Sotheby's, New York, 28 May 1987 (lot 3).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Lacambre, Geneviève, La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, Paris, 1995.
  • Anon., La Lettre des Musées de France, Paris, 1995.
  • Lacambre, Geneviève, La revue du Musée d'Orsay, n°1, Paris, September 1995.

Websites

  • Musée d'Orsay website at http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 51) 'Variations in violet and green'.

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 31st December 2020 by Margaret