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Auction archive: Lot number 1116

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Two Autograph Letters Signed and Related Letter.Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Two Autograph Letters Signed and Related Letter.

Estimate
US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$861
Auction archive: Lot number 1116

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Two Autograph Letters Signed and Related Letter.Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Two Autograph Letters Signed and Related Letter.

Estimate
US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$861
Beschreibung:

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Two Autograph Letters Signed and Related Letter. Two letters written by Whistler to E.T. Cook, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, suggesting publication of illustrations of his paintings The Little White Girl and Miss Alexander, and enclosing a letter (not present) which he would like to have printed "in tomorrow's issue, as it stands"; three pages in total, written in Paris, slightly toned, the two matted in a double-glazed frame, 5 x 6 in. [and] 4 x 6 in. [Together with] Autograph letter signed by Wyke Bayliss President of the Royal Society of British Artists, to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, giving details of the dispute that had arisen between the Society and Whistler (its former President); the dispute caused by the removal of Whistler's butterfly signature from the notice board that he designed for the Society; Bayliss requests publication of "this simple statement of the facts as they occurred."

Auction archive: Lot number 1116
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2016
Auction house:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
United States
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
Beschreibung:

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Two Autograph Letters Signed and Related Letter. Two letters written by Whistler to E.T. Cook, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, suggesting publication of illustrations of his paintings The Little White Girl and Miss Alexander, and enclosing a letter (not present) which he would like to have printed "in tomorrow's issue, as it stands"; three pages in total, written in Paris, slightly toned, the two matted in a double-glazed frame, 5 x 6 in. [and] 4 x 6 in. [Together with] Autograph letter signed by Wyke Bayliss President of the Royal Society of British Artists, to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, giving details of the dispute that had arisen between the Society and Whistler (its former President); the dispute caused by the removal of Whistler's butterfly signature from the notice board that he designed for the Society; Bayliss requests publication of "this simple statement of the facts as they occurred."

Auction archive: Lot number 1116
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2016
Auction house:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
United States
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
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