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"Old Battersea Bridge" (1879), lithograph on grayish ivory wove paper appliqué on ivory wove plate paper, 209x343mm; 8 1/4" x 13 1/2", wide margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 100. Signed in the stone with the butterfly monogram. Published by Boussod, Valadon and Co., Paris. From Notes. A very good, clean impression [Way 12; Levy 24; Spink 18]. Whistler's lithographs, which number approximately 170, are less well known than his etchings, despite his early role in the revival of interest in the medium at the end of the 19th century. The first lithographs, some 20 prints, were made in 1878-79. These first lithographs, other than lithotints, were drawn with crayon onto transfer paper from which they were offset on stone. Whistler had proofs pulled as work on the stone progressed. The lithographs are generally known in several states. At the time 'Nocturne: The River at Battersea" was drawn only a few impressions were pulled. But in 1887, when Whistler's interest in lithography was renewed, six of his early lithographs, including this one, were issued as a set, 'Notes' by Boussod, Valadon & Co. An edition of 100 were printed. The set comprised three Thames subjects, the Nocturne: The River at Battersea, Limehouse, and Old Battersea Bridge, two street scenes, Gaiety Stage Door and Victoria Club, and a portrait of Maud Franklin, Lady Reading. Although Whistler made only 17 lithographs prior to his departure for Venice, they were serious experiments in which the artist explored the range of possibilities in the medium. These lithographs anticipate the informal observation of much of Whistler's work done in Venice and England after his return, and their compositions have a corresponding informality. The abbreviation of detail into a few random touches of the crayon is extremely precocious [as taken from Mervyn Levy's 'Whistler Lithographs']. This Whistler lithograph is in a 22" x 27 3/8" Larson-Juhl 'Marais' engraved European silver scaffito panel frame. The matching Larson-Juhl 'Marais' wood fillet echoes the frame. The outer grayish toupe tan linen and stone inner mats are acid and lignin free and protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ...... $5,000.00 |