?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
FROM THE BIRNIE PHILIP COLLECTION JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Duet.
Lithograph on antique cream laid paper, 1894. 246x165 mm; 93/4x61/2 inches, full margins (the sheet, removed from a book, with sew holes at the extreme right edge). Edition of approximately 12. The name H. Renoz counter mark to a Pro Patria watermark (Spink 266). Ex-collection Rosalind Birnie Philip (Lugt 405, verso) and Colnaghi, London, with their stock number(s) in pencil, lower margin recto. A superb impression of this extremely scarce print.
We have found only one other impression at auction; it sold at Sotheby's, New York, October 31, 2003, The Louis B. Dailey Collection of Whistler Prints, lot 98. Way 64; Levy 95; Spink 104.
