This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/10/2015
Signed with Whistler's butterfly signature. undated. The artist notes that he had been so happy in showing the unnamed recipient "all my work, I quite forgot to ask about the Berlin Exhibition. May I look in tomorrow morning at 10:30 or 11 and get from you . . . [illegible]? I would not be five minutes." Also included is a photograph of Whistler's Arrangement in Gray. does exhibit mounting remnants on versos.Writing and signature is faded, but still clearly readable.
James Whistler began developing his butterfly signature - based on his initials -- in the 1860s during a period when he was interested in Asian art. The shape of the butterfly evolved over his lifetime as he applied the design to correspondence and paintings