Mar 08, 2016 - Sale 2407

Sale 2407 - Lot 40

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Nude Model, Reclining.

Lithograph on antique cream laid paper, 1893. 115x214 mm; 4 1/2x8 1/2 inches, full margins. Third state (of 3), with the crescent-shaped spot in the highlighted area on the model's left shoulder removed. Edition of approximately only 41 posthumous impressions printed by Goulding in 1904 (aside from the lifetime edition of approximately 25). Strasburg Lily watermark. A superb, richly-inked impression of this scarce lithograph, with all the tonal variations distinct and with strong contrasts. Way 47; Levy 75; Spink 73.