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How much Whistler paintings are worth varies based on their historical significance, size, condition and other characteristics. In 2000, his piece Harmony in Grey, Chelsea in Ice set a new auction sales record for the painter when it sold for more than $2.8 million. James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American artist active during the Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He was influenced by the injunctions of the poet Charles Baudelaire that artists should take subjects from modern life and seek a new beauty in the teeming cities. To find out how much a particular Whistler painting may be worth, have a certified appraiser or knowledgeable art dealer assess it for you. Explore a variety of James Abbott McNeill Whistler art on 1stDibs.
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Billingsgate
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching printed in dark brownish black ink on cream laid paper, 6 x 8 7/8 inches (152 x 226 mm); full margins. Extremely minor and unobtrusive band of toning along the top sheet edg...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903, British) "Fulham (Chelsea Church)"
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in San Francisco, CA
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903, British)
"Fulham (Chelsea Church)"
Etching
Year 1865
8" x 5 1/8 unframed
13.75 x 17.25" framed
Category
1870s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Thames Warehouses
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER (American 1834–1903 London)
THAMES WAREHOUSES, 1859 (K 38 ii/ii; Glascow 46 iv/v; Mansfield 37)
Etching and drypoint on fine thin laid paper. Plate: 3 × 8 i...
Category
1850s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
READING BY LAMPLIGHT
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. READING BY LAMPLIGHT. Etching and drypoint, 1859. Glascow 37, W.25, K.32. Third state of three, with the revisions to the sitter's facial expression and the dar...
Category
1850s Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
"Beach Scene at Dieppe" James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Tonalist Watercolor
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Beach Scene at Dieppe, 1885-86
Watercolor on paper, mounted on board
8 1/2 x 5 inches
Signed on the reverse
Provenance:
Miss Annie Burr Jennings
Mrs. ...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Little Wheelwright's
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Little Wheelwright's. 1886. Etching. Kennedy 245; Glasgow 242. 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 (sheet 5 1/8 x 6 1/8). There was no lifetime edition. Glasgow lists only 13 other known impressions. A fine impression printed in black ink on white laid paper. Monogrammed with the butterfly in the plate. Housed in a 10 X 11 1/2 X 1-inch gold leaf period carved Celtic...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$2,000 Sale Price
42% Off