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Lot 40
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James McNeill Whistler

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • James McNeill Whistler
  • Afternoon Tea (Spink/Stratis/Tedeschi 173; Way 147; Levy 114)
  • lithograph
  • sheet 398 by 244 mm 15 5/8 by 9 5/8 in
Lithograph, 1897, from the edition of 100 published in L'Album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard, on tan laid Japan paper, published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, with the D. Sagot Editeur blindstamp

Condition

The print is in good condition, the sheet full. The extreme sheet edges with scattered foxing, a few soft handling creases at lower margin. (The right sheet edge with flattened creases and remains of adhesive verso, likely inherent to the original mount as described in S./S./T.)
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