JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Little Nude Model, Reading.
Lithograph on thin, antique, cream laid paper, 1889-90. 167x179 mm; 6 5/8x7 1/8 inches, full margins. Edition of only approximately 28. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower left. Indiscernible counter mark to an unknown watermark (initials I V I with an arrow, not in Spink). A superb impression of this extremely scarce, important lithograph.
Among the artist's most commercially successful lithographs, only one impression remained in his estate in 1903. We have found only 4 other signed, lifetime impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Way 29; Levy 43; Spink 33.
