JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Mother and Daughter (La Mère Malade).
Lithograph on Chine volant, 1897. 187x158 mm; 7x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 200. Printed by Auguste Clot, Paris. A superb, dark impression with strong contrasts.
According to Spink, et als, 160 impressions of this print remained in Clot's estate (p. 487).
Whistler's mother-in-law, Frances Birnie Philip, and one of his sisters-in-law, probably Ethel Whibley, in the drawing room at Whistler's house on the rue de Bac in Paris.
This is one of two lithographs published by Ambroise Vollard, who went on to fame as the publisher of Picasso's prints during the 1930s/1940s, which were also printed by Auguste Clot. Whistler probably drew these lithographs of his in-laws in the fall of 1897, around a year after his wife's death. Levy 77; Spink 174
