May 06, 2004 - Sale 2005

Sale 2005 - Lot 375

Price Realized: $ 3,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FROM THE BIRNIE PHILIP COLLECTION JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Confidences in the Garden.

Lithograph on antique cream laid paper, 1894. 212x160 mm; 83/8x63/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Pierre Caperoni watermark (Spink 65). Edition of approximately 15. Ex-collection the artist's sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (Lugt 405, verso). A superb, evenly printed impression.

The current work shows Whistler's wife, Beatrix, and her sister, Ethel (both also Rosalind's sisters), in Whistler's Paris garden. Way 60; Levy 91; Spink 100.