Property from a Michigan Collection
James McNeill Whistler
Campanile at Lido
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Michigan Collection
James McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
Campanile at Lido
signed with the device (upper right); inscribed no. 3 (lower left)
pastel and pencil on brown paper
8 by 11 ⅞ in.
20.3 by 30.2 cm.
Executed in 1879.
Frost & Reed, London (acquired in 1918)
Sotheby's New York, 25 June 1980, lot 178A (as A Venetian Church)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Sotheby's New York, 25 June 1980, lot 178A (as A Venetian Church)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, London Replica Handbags s Society, Venice Pastels, 1881, no. 27
"Mr. Whistler's Pastels," Athenaeum, London, no. 2780, 1881, p. 206
H. Quilter, "Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels," The Times, London, 1881, p. 4
E.W. Godwin, "Notes on Current Events," British Architect, 1881, pp. 59-64
T.R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London, 1912, pp. 52-53
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours, New Haven, 1995, no. 737, p. 269-70
A. Grieve, Whistler's Venice, New Haven, 2000, pp. 178-90, illustrated
Margaret F. MacDonald, Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Berkeley, California, 2001, pp. 25, 153
H. Quilter, "Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels," The Times, London, 1881, p. 4
E.W. Godwin, "Notes on Current Events," British Architect, 1881, pp. 59-64
T.R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London, 1912, pp. 52-53
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours, New Haven, 1995, no. 737, p. 269-70
A. Grieve, Whistler's Venice, New Haven, 2000, pp. 178-90, illustrated
Margaret F. MacDonald, Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Berkeley, California, 2001, pp. 25, 153