20
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JAMES A. M.WHISTLER
The Little Nude Model, Reading
.
Lithograph on thin, antique, cream laid paper, 1889-90. 167x179 mm; 6
5
/
8
x7
1
/
8
inches, full
margins. Edition of only approximately 28. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower left.
Indiscernible counter mark to an unknown watermark (initials IV I with an arrow, not in
Spink). A superb impression of this extremely scarce, important lithograph.
Among the artist’s most commercially successful lithographs, only one impression
remained in his estate in 1903.We have found only 4 other signed, lifetime impressions at
auction in the past 25 years.Way 29; Levy 43; Spink 33.
[30,000/50,000]
