?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Model Resting.
Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1870. 208x133 mm; 8 1/4x5 1/4 inches, full margins. Fourth state (of 8), before the heavy horizontal shading in the upper background. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil, lower right. Ex-collection George Mathew Adams (Lugt 59, lower right recto); Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (Lugt 1429, verso); and B. Bernard MacGeorge (Lugt 394, verso). A brilliant, early impression of this extremely print.
We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. The most recent results, a fifth state impression, sold at Swann, on May 13, 1999, auction 1826, lot 227, and an eighth state impression, sold at Swann, on April 27, 2010, auction 2112, lot 247. Kennedy 100.
