Mar 13, 2018 - Sale 2469

Sale 2469 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
THÉODORE ROUSSEL
Two prints.

Reclining Nude, lithograph. 121x168 mm; 4x6 5/8 inches, full margins * Model Sleeping, etching. 195x235 mm; 7 3/4x9 1/4 inches, full margins. Very good impressions.

French-born, Roussel (1847-1926) settled in England in 1878. He met Whistler in 1885 when the two became neighbors in Chelsea and they were subsequently life-long friends. Roussel took up etching and lithography around 1888 with Whistler's encouragement.