Apr 28, 2016 - Sale 2412

Sale 2412 - Lot 344

Price Realized: $ 70,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Doorway.

Etching, drypoint and roulette printed in dark, brownish black on antique, cream laid paper, 1879-80. 295x204 mm; 11 5/8x8 inches, full margins. MacDonald's ninth state (of 20). Edition of approximately 65. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. From Twelve Etchings. A superb, richly-inked impression of this important etching with selective wiping. Kennedy 188; Glasgow 193.