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JAMES A. M.WHISTLER
Mother and Daughter (La Mère Malade)
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Lithograph on
Chine volant
, 1897. 187x158 mm; 7x6
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Edition of
approximately 200. Printed by Auguste Clot, Paris. A good impression.
According to Spink, et al, 160 impressions of this print remained in Clot’s estate (p. 487).
Whistler’s mother-in-law, Frances Birnie Philip, and one of his sisters-in-law, probably
Ethel Whibley, in the drawing room at Whistler’s house on the rue de Bac in Paris.
This is one of two lithographs published by Ambroise Vollard and printed by Auguste
Clot.Vollard famously went on to publish the prints of Picasso, among others, during the
1930s/1940s, many of which were also printed by Clot.Whistler probably drew these
lithographs of his in-laws in the fall of 1897, around a year after his wife’s death. Levy 77;
Spink 174.
[1,500/2,500]
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JAMES A. M.WHISTLER
Charing Cross Railway Bridge
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Lithograph on cream laid paper, 1896. 130x216 mm; 5
1
/
8
x8
1
/
2
inches, full margins. Edition
of approximately 30. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower left. Roman numeral “IV”
watermark (Spink 190). A very good impression.Way 120; Levy 166; Spink 157.
[2,500/3,500]
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FÉLIX BUHOT
La Dame aux Cygnes
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Etching, aquatint and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1879. 130x180 mm; 5
1
/
8
x7
1
/
8
inches,
full margins. Third state (of 3).With the artist’s red ink stamp (Lugt 977, lower center
recto). A very good, richly-inked impression, with the uncleaned margins and inky plate
edges. Bourcard/Goodfriend 144.
[1,200/1,800]
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