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Sat, Nov 17, 2018 09:00AM EST
Lot 1530

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(Massachusetts/England, 1834-1903)

The Unsafe Tenement, 1848, from [Twelve Etchings from Nature], state IV/IV (K. 17), signed in plate lower right "Whistler", drypoint etching on laid paper, 6-1/8 x 8-3/4 in. (plate) 7-3/4 x 10-3/4 in. (sheet); gilt wood frame, 13-3/4 x 17-5/8 in.

Note:

Literature: Kennedy, Edward G. [The Etched Work of Whistler]. San Francisco: Alan Wolfsy, 1978, no. 17, ill.

Condition

hinged in, some toning, pencil inscriptions in margins, handling grime, small points of foxing; frame with abrasions