American, 1834-1903
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) To Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water", 1855
Signed Whistler (lr)
Watercolor on paper laid to board
20 1/8 x 28 5/8 inches (51.1 x 72.7 cm)
Provenance:
The artist
Dr. George Philip Camman, circa 1855
Thence by descent in the family
Literature:
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonne, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 52, 53, no. 176, illus.
Exhibited:
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Turner Whistler Monet: Impressionist Visions, June 12 - Sep. 12, 2004, no. 25
Traveling to Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Musée d'Orsay, Grand Palais, Oct. 12, 2004 - Jan. 17, 2005
Then to London, Tate Britan, Feb. 10 - May 15, 2005
American, 1834-1903
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) To Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water", 1855
Signed Whistler (lr)
Watercolor on paper laid to board
20 1/8 x 28 5/8 inches (51.1 x 72.7 cm)
Provenance:
The artist
Dr. George Philip Camman, circa 1855
Thence by descent in the family
Literature:
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonne, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 52, 53, no. 176, illus.
Exhibited:
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Turner Whistler Monet: Impressionist Visions, June 12 - Sep. 12, 2004, no. 25
Traveling to Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Musée d'Orsay, Grand Palais, Oct. 12, 2004 - Jan. 17, 2005
Then to London, Tate Britan, Feb. 10 - May 15, 2005
Small scratch in the lower right corner
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Auction: Impressionist & Modern Art / Post-War Art & Contemporary Art, Nov 15, 2023
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on November 15, 2023. Showcasing important European, American and Asian paintings, drawings and sculpture, the offerings spanned Academic and Barbizon art through Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to German Expressionism and early Modernism.
Also offered in the November 15 auction was Post-War & Contemporary Art. Read More
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