Lot 71
  • 71

Mary Cassatt

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Mary Cassatt
  • Sketch for "Simone Seated with Hands and Feet Crossed" (No. 2)
  • initialed M.C. (lower right); annotated 108 (upper edge verso)
  • pencil on paper
  • 11 1/4 by 7 1/2 inches (28.6 by 19 cm)
  • Executed circa 1903-1904.

Provenance

Mary Cassatt
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Henri M. Petiet, Paris (from the estate of the above)
Heirs of Henri M. Petiet, Paris
Marc Rosen Fine Art, Ltd., New York
Meredith Long & Company, Houston
Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Houston, Meredith Long & Company, (presented by Marc Rosen Fine Art Ltd.), From the Artist's Studio: Unknown Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt, 2000

Literature

A. D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 900
Marc Rosen and Susan Pinsky, From the Artist's Studio: Unknown Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt, Princeton, 2000, p. 145, illustrated p. 144

Condition

In good condition; minor creasing to the upper left quadrant.
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