Sep 22, 2011 - Sale 2254

Sale 2254 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Finette.

Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 1859. 288x200 mm; 11 1/2x8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Tenth state (of 10), after cancellation, the cancellation lines unobtrusive. Strasburg lily with the letters VGZ watermark (Spink, et als., no. 292, which is listed in the catalogue raisonné of the lithographs as a paper used for lifetime impressions). A very good impression of this extremely scarce print. See

Swann, auction 1969, May 1, 2003, lot 111. Kennedy 58.