Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 11,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Venetian Mast.

Etching and drypoint, 1879-80. 340x160 mm; 13 3/8x6 1/4 inches, small margins. Edition of approximately 57. MacDonald's seventh state (of 12), with the fine shading along the horizon line but before the new patches of foul biting in the sky. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. From Twelve Etchings. A superb, well-inked impression with warm plate tone. Kennedy 195; Glasgow 219.