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James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903): Lithographs

Whistler: Etchings / Whistler: Lithographs

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Prints and Drawings: Prints by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Charles Camoin, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Henri Edmond Cross, Edgar Degas, Sonia Delaunay, Maurice Denis, André Derain, Susanne Duchamp, Raoul Dufy, Jean-Louis Forain, Pauk Gauguin, Marie Laurencin, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Berthé Morisot, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Geeorges Rouault, Ker Xavier Roussel, Paul Signac, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon, Maurice de Vlaminck, James A. McNeill Whistler, and others.

Drawings by Albert Besnard, Andre Barbier, Henri Edmond Cross, Jean-Louis Forain, Eva Gonzales, Marie Laurencin, Maximilien Luce, and Georges Rouault.

Hand-colored prints by Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Sonja Delaunay, Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

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Whistler was one of the most controversial artists of the last part of the nineteenth century and delighted in puncturing the stuffiness of the English whose lifes he delighted in enlivening. Yet despite his abrasive personality, his art is among the most subtle of his times. Whistler made it his mission in England, where he spent the latter part of his life, to attack the notion that the artist must portray the subjects upon which he worked recognizably, prefering instead to present the inner harmony that he felt when painting, etching, or making prints. His work moves from realism to Impressionism to Symbolism to Abstraction.

Selected Print Bibliography: Campbell Dodgson, The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler (London: The Studio, 1922); Ruth E. Fine, Drawing Near: Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984); Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (San Francisco, Alan Wofsy, 1987); Mervyn Levy, Whistler Lithographs: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne (London: Jupiter Books, 1975.); Katharine Lochnan, The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); Carole McNamara, Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision (Ann Arbor: University Of Michigan Press, 1994); Denys Sutton, James McNeill Whistler Paintings, Etchings, Pastels & Waterolours (London: Phaidon, 1966); Frederick A. Sweet, James Mc.Neill Whistler (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1968); Martha Tedeschi and Britt Salvesen, Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1998); Stephanie Wiles, ed., James McNeill Whistler & the Etching Revival (Middletown: Davison Art Center, 1999).
Savoy Pigeons (W. 118, L. 164). Original lithograph, 1896. A very good impression published in The Studio, 1896, with their blindstamp (lower left). Signed with the Butterfly (on the right below the pigeons). A view of the Thames looking towards Westminister, drawn from a balcony of the Savoy Hotel. Image size: 200x140mm. Price: $1350.
The Smith's Yard (Way 88, Levy 126). Original lithograph, 1895. Published in The Studio, 1895, with their blindstamp (lower right-center). Signed in the stone with the Butterfly (above the stable, right-center). A very rich impression. Image size: 185x158mm. Price: $1350.
The Long Gallery at the Louvre (Way 52, Levy 83). Original lithograph, 1894. Published in The Studio, 1894, with their blindstamp (lower right). Signed in the stone with the Butterfly (lower right-center). Ours is a rich impression of this depiction of crowds at the Louvre, newly returned from the conservator. Image size: 200x140mm. Price: SOLD.
Gants de suède / Suede gloves (Way 26, Levy 40). Original lithograph, 1890. Published in The Studio, 1894, with their blindstamp (lower left). Signed in the stone with the Butterfly (upper left). Ours is a very rich impression of this beautiful portrait of Ethel Birnie Philip. Image size: 186x150mm. Price: $1500.
La Robe Rouge / The Red Dress (Way 68, Levy 98). Original lithograph, 1894. Published in The Studio, 1894, with their blindstamp (lower left). Signed in the stone with the Butterfly (upper left). Ours is a very rich impression of this beautiful portrait, newly returned from the conservator. Image size: 186x150mm. Price: $1500.
The Doctor (Way 78, Levy 117). Original lithograph, 1895. As published in the first number of The Pageant (1896). The work was printed by Whistler's favorite lithographer, Thomas Way. The subject is Whistler's brother, Dr. William Whistler. Signed with the Butterfly. Image size: 180x130mm. Price: $1500.
Firelight: Joseph Pennell (Way 104, Levy 152). Original lithograph, 1896. As published in Lithography and Lithographers (1898) by Joseph & Elizabeth Robins Pennell. The work was printed by Whistler's favorite lithographer, Thomas Way. The subject is Whistler's friend and fellow artist, Joseph Pennell. Signed with the Butterfly in the stone (left margin, 3/5ths of the way up from the bottom margin). A very good impression. Image size: 165x140mm. Price: $1500.

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