?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Finette.
Drypoint and etching on thin, cream laid Japan paper, 1859. 288x200 mm; 11 3/8x8 inches, full margins. Sixth state (of 10). Signed in pencil, lower right. Ex-collection Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342, verso); and Harris G. Whittemore (Lugt supplement 1384a, verso). A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce print.
This impression reproduced in Kennedy (inadvertently noted as the ninth state below the illustration).
We have not found another impression at auction in the past 25 years and do not know of any other pencil-signed impressions of this work (2 impressions after cancellation have sold at Swann: May 1, 2003, auction 1969, lot 111; and September 22, 2011, auction 2254, lot 122). Kennedy 58.
