Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Long Balcony.

Lithograph on Japan paper, 1894. 204x158 mm; 8 1/8x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of approximately only 28. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower left. Ex-collection John Postle Heseltine (Lugt 1508, verso). A superb, dark impression of this very scarce lithograph, with strong contrasts.

We have found only 4 other lifetime impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Way 49; Levy 80; Spink 82.