The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Nude model reclining dates from 4 June 1900.

Nude model reclining, private collection

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1606).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Nude model reclining, private collection

Ethel Warwick (1882-1951).

Technique

Technique

Nude model reclining, private collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1606).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death, and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
• 1943: bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers, and sold to Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877-1963), on 2 June 1943.
• 1974: bought from L. Hermann by Agnew's London art dealers, 27 February, and sold to a private collector.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1606).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1606) as 'Nude model reclining'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• MacDonald, Margaret F., Whistler: The Graphic Work: Amsterdam, Liverpool, London, Venice, Agnew's, London, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1976 (cat. no. 55).
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 60), repr.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Whistler Pastels and Related Works in the Hunterian Art Gallery, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 1984, p. 30 (not exhibited).
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner, and Richard Thomson, Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec. London and Paris, 1870-1910,Tate Britain, London, 2005-2006.