Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010307Gray and Silver: A Nocturne
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
Paths of Abstraction - 1867-1917. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organizer) (June 26-September 19, 2010).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Walter Greaves (British, 1841–1930)
- Date
- c. 1880–1900
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 74.9 x 85.1 x 6 cm (29 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 51 x 58.7 cm (20 1/16 x 23 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1964.361
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