Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Storm.

Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1861. 285x158 mm; 6 1/4x11 1/4 inches, full margins. MacDonald's third state (of 3), though with the unobtrusive cancellation lines diminished. A very good impression.

According to Kennedy, "Only 4 impressions are known before cancellation of the plate." MacDonald notes that the cancelled plate was acquired by the Fine Art Society, London, in 1879, who issued a small edition (certainly more than the 4 cited by Kennedy). Later, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, acquired the plate and published "a fairly limited edition of at least 12 in 1889." Kennedy 81; Glasgow 81.