Lot 104
  • 104

Mary Cassatt 1844 - 1926

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mary Cassatt
  • Woman and Child in Front of a Fruit Tree
  • signed M. Cassatt (upper right)
  • pastel on paper
  • 17 3/4 by 16 1/4 inches
  • (45.1 by 41.3 cm)
  • Executed in 1893.

Provenance

(likely) Ambroise Vollard, Paris, France
Private Collection, New York, circa 1940s
Adelson Galleries, New York, 2009
Hammer Galleries, New York, 2011
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Hammer Galleries, On Paper: Impressionist, Modern and Post-War Masters, May-August 2012
New York, Hammer Galleries, Winter 2013: Selected Works by Grandma Moses and Other American Masters, February-May 2013
New York, Leila Heller Gallery, Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, May-August 2014, illustrated

Literature

Cassatt Committee, Mary Cassatt: A New Catalogue Raisonné, no. 1132

Condition

This work is in good condition. The sheet is hinged to the mat at corners. There are a few tiny losses at edges and a 1-inch repaired loss at the upper left edge. The image is slightly darkened and there are a few scattered pindots of foxing.
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Catalogue Note

The present pastel is one of a series of works related to Mary Cassatt's Modern Woman mural, painted for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,