Lot 65
  • 65

Mary Cassatt 1844 - 1926

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Mary Cassatt
  • Sketch for "Margot Embracing Her Mother" (No. 2)
  • signed Mary Cassatt (lower right)
  • pastel on paper
  • 19 1/2 by 25 inches
  • (49.5 by 63.5 cm)
  • Executed in 1903.

Provenance

Sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, June 3, 1927, no. 7, illustrated (as Jeune mère et l'enfant)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Gaston Lévy, Paris, France (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, November 17, 1932, no. 8, illustrated, as La mère et l'enfant
Wildenstein & Co., New York, circa 1980
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1980
Private Collection, Nashville, Tennessee, 1981 (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Tokyo, Japan, Isetan Museum of Art; Nara, Japan, Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, The Art of Mary Cassatt: 1844-1926, June-August 1981, no. 40, illustrated
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, Mary Cassatt: An American Observer, October 1984, no. 29, illustrated

Literature

Maurice Monda, "Revue des ventes de mai et juin," Le Figaro artistique, 1927, p. 601 (as Jeune mère et son enfant)
Jacques Reyliane, "Une belle vente de tableaux modernes," Le Figaro artistique,1927b, p. 538 (as Jeune mère et son enfant)
René Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporaines 1910-1930, Paris, France, 1930, p. 251 (as Jeune mère et son enfant)
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 417, p. 167, illustrated
Ronald Pickvance, "The Literature of Art: A Mary Cassatt Catalogue," Burlington Magazine, vol. 115, 1973, p. 745
Donna Seldin, Mary Cassatt: An American Observer, New York, 1984, illustrated fig. 29
Cassatt Committee, Mary Cassatt: A New Catalogue Raisonné, www.marycassatt.com, no. 401, illustrated