Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea.

Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1878. 176x303 mm; 7x12 inches, full margins. MacDonald's third state (of 3), with the artist's butterfly signature in the sky above the tower and with the drypoint shading on the hull of the second boat in from the left. A very good, well-inked impression. Kennedy 175; Glasgow 182.