May 04, 2006 - Sale 2078

Sale 2078 - Lot 318

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Novel: Girl Reading.

Lithograph on antique cream laid paper, circa 1889. 199x79 mm; 7 7/8x3 1/8 inches, full margins. The letters HI counter mark to an Arms of Amsterdam watermark (Spink 165). Ex-collection Rosalind Bernie Philip, the artist's sister-in-law (Lugt 405, verso, faded); and Colnaghi, London, with their stock numbers in pencil, lower margin recto. Time stain. A very good impression of this scarce print.

Likely one of the 52 impressions printed by Goulding in 1904 for Rosalind Bernie Philip. We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Way 33; Levy 52; Spink 32.