Sep 12, 2013 - Sale 2322

Sale 2322 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Jo's Bent Head.

Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1861. 226x152 mm; 8 7/8x6 inches, small margins. MacDonald's third state (of 3). A very good impression of this scarce, early print.

According to MacDonald, there are approximately 30 recorded impressions of this subject.

The model is Joanna Hiffernan, Whistler's red-headed Irish mistress; she was also the sitter for Whistler's famous painting, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1861, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Kennedy 78; Glasgow 88.