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Grey and Pearl: Bank Holiday bannersWhistler, James Abbott McNeill (draughtsman) | |
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Title/s | Grey and Pearl: Bank Holiday banners |
Maker/s | Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (draughtsman) [ULAN info: American artist, 1834-1903] |
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drawing |
Name | drawing |
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Dimensions |
height: 217
mm |
Date | 1883 to 1884 |
Provenance | bequeathed: Knowles, Guy John Fenton 1959 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) |
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Notes | The presence of the tricolour flag has led to suggestions that the scene represents a location on the Continent, possibly Scheveningen. However, as Margaret MacDonald has pointed out, Bank Holidays are a perculiary British institution and it seems more likely that it was painted at an English resort. At least four copies of this watercolour are known, either by a pupil, working alongside Whistler or as deliberate fakes, made from a colour reproductiion of this watercolour. One was with Sotheby's, Parke Bernet, New York, 11 April 1973 (37); another was exhibited in 'James McNeill Whistler', London Arts Council Gallery, 1960 (96), and two are in private collections in England and Washington. |
Material/s |
watercolour (medium) |
Accession Number | PD.75-1959 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) |
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