Mar 10, 2022 - Sale 2597

Sale 2597 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Nocturne: Furnace.

Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on antique laid paper, 1879-80. 166x231 mm; 6 5/8x9 1/8 inches. MacDonald's eleventh state (of 12). Edition of approximately 46. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. From Twenty-Six Etchings. A superb, well-inked impression with selective wiping inked in the manner of a monotype and all the fine lines distinct.

Provenance: Tracy Dows, New York, with the ink stamp (Lugt 2427, verso). Kennedy 213; Glasgow 208.