Lot 65
  • 65

James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • James McNeill Whistler
  • Interior of a Cafe
  • pencil on paper laid down on board 
  • 4 3/4 by 7 1/2 in.
  • 12.1 by 19.1 cm.
  • Executed circa 1858

Provenance

Walter Dowdeswell, London
Maggs Brothers, London, until 1937
Steven Juvelis, Lynn, Massachusetts, until 1962
(Sale:  Christie's, London, June 22, 1962, lot 13, as Soupe à Trois Sous)
P.& D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., until1967
Edward Seago, until 1974
Peter Seymour, Norfolk, England, inherited from the above, until 1987
(Sale:  Sotheby's, London, May 13, 1987, lot 85)
Private Collection, London
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
(Sale:  Sotheby's, New York, September 23, 1993, lot 123)
Mark Borghi Fine Art, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1995, p. 76, no. 243, illustrated

Condition

in good condition, generally; a few scattered smudges, light stains; a faint fingerprint at upper right right; a few soft, whitish spots on sheet surface at left (perhaps old repairs?)
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