Property from the Collection of Martin and Liane Atlas
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Soupe à trois sous
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July 20, 03:48 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 USD
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Property from the Collection of Martin and Liane Atlas
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
Soupe à trois sous
etching on wove paper
plate: 6 by 8¾ in. (15.1 by 22.2 cm.)
sheet: 9⅝ by 12¾ in. (24.5 by 32.3 cm.)
Executed in 1859.
Kennedy 49; Glasgow 64
The work bears the following inscription in the margin at lower right:
Soupe à trois sous —
While he was drawing this at night in Paris about 12 pm a gendarme came up to him and wanted to know what he was doing. Whistler gave him the plate up side down and he didn't make anything of it of course