JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER

Mother and Child, No. 4 (W. 135; S./S./T. 54)

细节

JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER
Whistler
Mother and Child, No. 4 (W. 135; S./S./T. 54)
lithograph, 1891 and 1895, on tissue-thin laid Japan, a good, clear impression of this very rare print, S./S./T.'s only state, signed with the butterfly in pencil, from the lifetime edition of only 6 or 8 impressions, with full margins, the palest light-staining, otherwise in very good condition, framed
L. 5.5/8 x 9.1/8 in. (143 x 232 mm.)

来源

Colonel Frank J. Hecker, Detroit
Louise Hecker Fletcher
By descent to the present owner

拍品专文

No impressions of this rare lithograph were left in Whistler's estate at the time of his death, nor was there a posthumous edition. Aside from the example offered here, the five other known impressions are all located in museums.