Oct 27, 2010 - Sale 2227

Sale 2227 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Fishing-Boats, Hastings.

Etching and drypoint on tissue-thin, cream laid Japan paper, 1877. 150x250 mm; 6x9 7/8 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3), before the butterfly at left was re-outlined. A superb impression of this extremely scarce print.

We have not found another impression of this point at auction in the past 20 years.

Whistler made this etching of boats on the beach at the coastal town of Hastings most likely while visiting his mother. Anna Whistler, who had moved to England from Connecticut, lived in Hastings for several years before her death in 1881. Kennedy 158.