The Cleveland Museum of Art

• 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.
• Citations
  Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 323, Vol. I, no. 113
• Exhibition History
  Paths of Abstraction - 1867-1917. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organizer) (June 26-September 19, 2010).

  Art Gallery of New South Wales (6/26/2010 - 9/19/2010): "Path of Abstraction - 1867-1917", no cat. #, p. 90.

  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.

  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.
• Cite this Page
  {{cite web|title=Gray and Silver: A Nocturne|url=false|author=Walter Greaves|year=c. 1880–1900|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}