Lot 158
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MARY CASSATT | Simone Seated on the Grass Next to Her Mother

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mary Cassatt
  • Simone Seated on the Grass Next to Her Mother
  • Signed Mary Cassatt (lower right)
  • Pastel on paper laid down on board
  • 28 1/4 by 23 3/4 in.
  • 71.8 by 60.3 cm
  • Executed in 1901-02.

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Luigi Corbellini, Paris
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired in 1950)
Dr. & Mrs. Albert Kinkade Chapman, Rochester (and sold by the estate: John W. Coker Ltd., New Market, Tennessee, September 15, 2010, lot 40)
Acquired at the above sale

Literature

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt:  A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 453, illustrated p. 176
Patricia Hills, "Mary Cassatt," in American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. II, New York, 1997, pp. 40 & 46
Chuck Miller, "The Artwork of Former Eastman Kodak Chairman Coming up for Auction," in timesunion.com, September 13, 2010, illustrated n.p. (titled Simone Talking to Her Mother)

Condition

The board has been affixed to a stretcher. There is are a few dots of possible foxing at the lower edge near the left corner and an area of staining at the lower left edge. There appear to be a few pindots of possible loss near the extreme edges.
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Catalogue Note

 “I have had a joy from which no one can rob me—I have been able to touch some people with my art" - Mary Cassatt

(as quoted in National Gallery of Art, An Eye for Art: Focusing on Great Artists and Their Work, Washington, D.C., 2013, p. 110)

This work is included as no. 373 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.