Date
Design for 'Variations in Violet and Blue' was first shown in Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 5)
and presumably dated from the early 1870s.
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 559).
Images

Design for 'Variations in Violet and Blue', Whereabouts unknown
Subject
Description
Unknown.
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
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1874: Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 16) as "Design for 'Variations in Violet and Blue' ".
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 559) as 'Design for 'Variations in Violet and Blue''.
Catalogues 1855-1905
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Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 16) as "Design for 'Variations in Violet and Blue' ".