Lot 55
  • 55

Mary Cassatt 1845-1926

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Mary Cassatt
  • Sketch of Mother Looking Down at Thomas
  • pastel over counterproof on paper
  • 21 1/2 by 17 in.
  • (54.6 by 43.8 cm)

Provenance

Ambrose Vollard, Paris, France
Luigi Corbellini, Paris, France
Helen Steiner, San Francisco, California 
Hoover Gallery, San Francisco, California
Hall Galleries, Fort Worth, Texas
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1980 

Exhibited

Gihon Foundation, Works by Women: Paintings and Sculpture from the Gihon Foundation, traveling 1980-1988

Literature

Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, pl. 224 (illustration of the pastel)
S. Pinsky and M. Rosen, Art in a Mirror: the Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt, New York, Adelson Galleries, 2004, p. 57 (illustration of another version)

Catalogue Note

The present work is one of three versions the artist executed between 1905-1915.

This work will be included in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.