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Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming online revised catalogue raisonné being prepared by Professor Margaret MacDonald of the University of Glasgow.
In a letter included with this lot, Professor MacDonald writes of Marine, "The fluid brushstrokes on the deep green sea, and the drier strokes on the bright grey and blue sky, suggest a late date, between 1898 and 1901. I think it most likely that it was done in Pourville in 1899. It is similar in some ways to The Shore, Pourville [The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, England] and Green and Silver: The Great Sea [The Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland] among others."
The present work has been in the same family collection for over a century. The original purchaser, Henry Glover Stevens, notably bequeathed another work by Whistler entitled Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter (circa 1872) to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan.
In a letter included with this lot, Professor MacDonald writes of Marine, "The fluid brushstrokes on the deep green sea, and the drier strokes on the bright grey and blue sky, suggest a late date, between 1898 and 1901. I think it most likely that it was done in Pourville in 1899. It is similar in some ways to The Shore, Pourville [The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, England] and Green and Silver: The Great Sea [The Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland] among others."
The present work has been in the same family collection for over a century. The original purchaser, Henry Glover Stevens, notably bequeathed another work by Whistler entitled Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter (circa 1872) to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan.