Oct 26, 2011 - Sale 2258

Sale 2258 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 36,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Maude, Seated.

Drypoint and etching, 1873. 148x107 mm; 6x4 1/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Second state (of 3), before the redrawing of the head and the additional shading around the head in the background. Partial Pro Patria watermark. Ex-collection Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342, verso); and Harris G. Whittemore (Lugt supplement 1384a, verso). A brilliant, richly-inked, proof-like impression of this very scarce print.

We have found only 2 other impressions at auiction in the past 25 years. Kennedy 115.