Gray and Silver: A Nocturne

Sold by Messrs. Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, at the death of C. W. Dowdeswell at London sale, Christie's, 7-9 February 1917 (lot 308), W. Greaves, Grey and Silver: A Nocturne, 19½ x 13½ in., for £11:11:-: to Hugh Blaker. Bought in 1945 by Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London. Sold to Beryl Joyce. Sold by her at London sale, Christie's, 5 July 1963 (lot 15), Whistler, Nocturne in Silver and Grey, signed with butterfly, 19 x 23 in., bought in and returned to Beryl Joyce. Bought back by Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London. Sold to Durlacher Bros. New York. Purchased by the CMA in 1964.

Paths of Abstraction - 1867-1917. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organizer) (June 26-September 19, 2010). London, Institute of Contemporary Art. Ten Decades; A Review of British Taste 1851-1951 (1951), no. 104, Whistler, Nocturne in Grey and Silver, lent anonymously. New York, Durlacher Bros. Painters of the Beautiful; Lord Leighton, Whistler, Albert Moore and Conder (1964), no. 24, Whistler, Nocturne in Grey and Silver, signed lower right with Butterfly in circle; Hugh Blaker collection. Art Gallery of New South Wales (6/26/2010 - 9/19/2010): "Path of Abstraction - 1867-1917", no cat. #, p. 90.