The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0856
Blue and Brown – San Brelade's Bay
Date
Blue and Brown – San Brelade's Bay dates from 1881. It was exhibited in VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 342) under that title.
Beach scene with rocks, Terra Foundation for the Arts
It is possible that it is Beach scene with rocks m0855, which is reproduced above.
The watercolour is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 856).
Images
Blue and Brown – San Brelade's Bay, whereabouts unknown
Beach scene with rocks, Terra Foundation for the Arts
Subject
Site
St Brelade's Bay in the south-west of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
Technique
Technique
Beach scene with rocks, Terra Foundation for the Arts
Unknown. It is possible that it is Blue and Brown - San Brelade's Bay m0856.
History
Provenance
- Unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1882: VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 342) as 'Blue and Brown – San Brelade's Bay'.
Some comments published in Knowledge, possibly about this painting, were used by Whistler as a commentary on Nocturne: Battersea Reach y160 when it was exhibited at Goupil's in 1892:
'A few smears of colour, such as a painter might make in cleaning his paint brushes, and which, neither near at hand nor far off, neither from one side nor from the other, nor from in front, do more than vaguely suggest a shore and bay, was described as a Note in Blue and Brown ... One who found these pictures other than insults to his artistic sense could never be reached by reasoning.' 1
This review was used as a commentary on Nocturne: Battersea Reach y160 in 1882 but does not help to identifiy either of the paintings!
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 856) as 'Blue and Brown – San Brelade's Bay'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 342) as 'Blue and Brown – San Brelade's Bay'.
Journals 1855-1905
- Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Knowledge: An Illustrated Magazine of Science …', no. 32, 9 June 1882, pp. 17-18.
Books on Whistler
- Getscher, Robert H., and Paul G. Marks, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Two Annotated Bibliographies, New York and London, 1986, p. 191, J. 101.
Notes:
1: Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Knowledge: An Illustrated Magazine of Science …', no. 32, 9 June 1882, pp. 17-18. Quoted in Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 25). See Getscher 1986 [more], p. 191, J. 101.