May 01, 2008 - Sale 2144

Sale 2144 - Lot 384

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Reading by Lamplight.

Etching and drypoint on thin cream Japan paper, 1858. 158x120 mm; 6 1/4x4 3/4 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2), with the pattern on the bowl removed. A superb, richly-inked and dark impression with strong contrasts.

The sitter is Whistler's half-sister Deborah, wife of Francis Seymour Haden. Kennedy 32.