May 06, 2021 - Sale 2566

Sale 2566 - Lot 193

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Village Sweet Shop.

Etching printed in dark brownish black on cream laid paper, 1886. 82x124 mm; 3 1/4x4 7/8 inches. Edition of approximately only 14. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. A superb impression of this extremely scarce etching.

We have found only 5 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Kennedy 251; Glasgow 266.