LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel and pencil on brown paper

Size Notes:

8 x 11

Description:

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Markings:

signed with the device (upper right); inscribedno.3(lower left)

Exhibited:

London, London Fine Arts Society,Venice Pastels,1881, no. 27

Literature:

'Mr. Whistler's Pastels,'Athenaeum,London,no. 2780, 1881, p. 206; H. Quilter, 'Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels,'The Times,London, 1881, p. 4; E.W. Godwin, 'Notes on Current Events,'British Architect,1881, pp. 59-64; T.R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London, 1912, pp. 52-53; Margaret F. MacDonald,James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours,New Haven, 1995, no. 737, p. 269-70; A. Grieve,Whistler's Venice,New Haven, 2000, pp. 178-90, illustrated; Margaret F. MacDonald,Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice,Berkeley, California, 2001, pp. 25, 153

Provenance:

Frost & Reed, London (acquired in 1918); Sotheby's New York, 25 June 1980, lot 178A (asA Venetian Church); Acquired from the above by the present owner