?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Garden.
Etching and drypoint printed in dark, brownish black on antique, cream laid paper, 1879-80. 305x240 mm; 12x9 1/2 inches. MacDonald's twelfth state (of 15), before the dots of foul-biting on and around the lintel. Edition of approximately only 30. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. Ex-collection Colnaghi & Co., London, with their stock number in pencil, verso; sold Anderson Galleries, New York, February 5, 1928, sale 2231, lot 111; Fred F. and Cordelia French, New York. From Twenty-Six Etchings. A brilliant, luminous impression of this very scarce etching, with selective wiping and all the fine lines distinct. Kennedy 210.
