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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Pierrot

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30.000 $ - 50.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
27.500 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 312

JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Pierrot

Schätzpreis
30.000 $ - 50.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
27.500 $
Beschreibung:

JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Pierrot . Etching and drypoint printed in dark brown, 1889. 231x162 mm; 9 1/8x6 1/2 inches. MacDonald's sixth state (of 8), with the butterfly in the plate upper left but before the additional shading below the windows to the left of the boy in the doorway. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching, with selective wiping to reveal the dark reflections in the water, similar to the sixth state impression of this subject in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. MacDonald notes a total of approximately 33 impressions and cites 29 of these in public instituitions. We have found only 7 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. The Pierrot dates from Whistler's stay in Amsterdam, with his wife Beatrix, from August to Otcober 1889. Nearly all the impressions from the plate were printed in London in February 1890. The subject derives from the tragi-comic mime character in the Italian commedia dell'arte popularized durign the 17th century. According to MacDonald, "There was a revival of interest in the character of Pierrot in the 1880s. Adolphe Willette (1857-1926) illustrated sombre narratives featuring Pierrot in Le Chat Noir from 1882-1885 and in 1888 established a magazine, The Pierrot , satirising Montmartre life and cabarets. The journal, which appeared between 1888 and 1889, was certainly known to Whistler and may have been the immediate inspiration for the subject. The character was also appropriated by Symbolist poets, and Whistler, having recently met Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), and being associated both with the French and Belgian Symbolists, may have been responding to their obsession with Pierrot as a tragic, enigmatic figure, distant from reality." Kennedy 407; Glasgow 450.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 312
Auktion:
Datum:
29.04.2015
Auktionshaus:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Pierrot . Etching and drypoint printed in dark brown, 1889. 231x162 mm; 9 1/8x6 1/2 inches. MacDonald's sixth state (of 8), with the butterfly in the plate upper left but before the additional shading below the windows to the left of the boy in the doorway. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching, with selective wiping to reveal the dark reflections in the water, similar to the sixth state impression of this subject in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. MacDonald notes a total of approximately 33 impressions and cites 29 of these in public instituitions. We have found only 7 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. The Pierrot dates from Whistler's stay in Amsterdam, with his wife Beatrix, from August to Otcober 1889. Nearly all the impressions from the plate were printed in London in February 1890. The subject derives from the tragi-comic mime character in the Italian commedia dell'arte popularized durign the 17th century. According to MacDonald, "There was a revival of interest in the character of Pierrot in the 1880s. Adolphe Willette (1857-1926) illustrated sombre narratives featuring Pierrot in Le Chat Noir from 1882-1885 and in 1888 established a magazine, The Pierrot , satirising Montmartre life and cabarets. The journal, which appeared between 1888 and 1889, was certainly known to Whistler and may have been the immediate inspiration for the subject. The character was also appropriated by Symbolist poets, and Whistler, having recently met Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), and being associated both with the French and Belgian Symbolists, may have been responding to their obsession with Pierrot as a tragic, enigmatic figure, distant from reality." Kennedy 407; Glasgow 450.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 312
Auktion:
Datum:
29.04.2015
Auktionshaus:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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