JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER (American, 1834-1903). Upright Venice (From The Second Venice Set), 1879-1880. Etching on ...

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JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER (American, 1834-1903)
Upright Venice (From The Second Venice Set), 1879-1880
Etching on paper
10 x 7 inches (25.4 x 17.8 cm)
Ed. IV/VIII
Bears butterfly insignia and the inscription imp. in pencil on the tab
Bears notation verso: W.172. / Upright Venice

PROVENANCE:
The Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art, Sears, circa 1960s;
Private collection, Poulsbo, Washington.

LITERATURE:
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910, p. 205.
M. MacDonald, G. Petri, M. Hausberg, and J. Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2012, online website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk, G.232.

We wish to thank Professor Margaret MacDonald for her gracious assistance in cataloguing this lot. In her opinion, "the butterfly signature in graphite pencil on the tab is not by Whistler: it is probably by one of his assistants, possibly Mortimer Menpes or Walter Sickert, who helped Whistler to print the Venice etchings."

More information about JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER. See also: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Whistler, James A. McNeill, Whistler, James Abbott MacNeil Artist.

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