?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Storm.
Drypoint printed in black on thin, bluish-gray laid paper, 2 impressions on one sheet (recto and verso), 1861. 157x285 mm; 6 1/4x11 1/4 inches, full margins. The first state (of 2), before additional work in the sky and landscape, on one side; the second state (of 2), as described in Kennedy as the only state, with the composition complete, on the other side. Superb, richly-inked impressions of these extremely scarce proofs.
According to Kennedy, "Only 4 impressions are known before cancellation of the plate."
We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years. These sold at Swann, May 5, 2005, sale 2042, lot 365, and October 27, 2010, sale 2227, lot 36. We have not seen any other double-sided proof impressions such as the current work. Kennedy 81
