Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Balcony.

Etching and drypoint printed in dark, brownish black on cream laid paper, 1879-80. 293x198 mm; 11 1/2x7 3/4 inches, full margins. MacDonald's sixth state (of 19), with the woman on the steps reworked but before the redrawing of the upper steps. Edition of approximately only 30. From Twenty-Six Etchings. A very good impression with warm plate tone. Kennedy 207; Glasgow 202.