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Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Little Nude Model, Reading.
Lithograph on thin cream laid Japan paper, 1889-90. 167x179 mm; 6 5/8x7 1/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Edition of 28. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower left. Ex-collection Henry Harper Benedict (Lugt 1298, lower left verso). A superb impression of this extremely scarce, important print.
Among the artist's most commercially successful lithographs, only one impression remained in his estate in 1903. We have found only 2 other signed, lifetime impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Way 29; Levy 43; Spink 33.
