Sep 22, 2011 - Sale 2254

Sale 2254 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 10,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Steps, Luxembourg.

Lithograph printed in black on antique cream laid paper, 1893. 208x157 mm; 8 1/4x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 15. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower right. Ex-collection Jules Chavasse (Lugt 1430, verso). A superb impression of this extremely scarce lithograph.

We have found only 3 other lifetime impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Way 43; Levy 70; Spink 68.