American Art
American Art
Property from the Collection of Richard and Betsy Porter, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Mary Cassatt
Children Playing with a Cat
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December 11, 04:21 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Richard and Betsy Porter, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Mary Cassatt
1844 - 1926
Children Playing with a Cat
signed Mary Cassatt (lower right)
oil on canvas
32 by 39 1/2 inches
(81.3 by 100.3 cm)
Painted in 1907-08.
This work is included as no. 509 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.
The artist
Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, 1908 (probably acquired from the above)
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, circa 1908 (acquired from the above)
François Daulte, Paris, France, by 1947
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1965 (acquired from the above)
Private collection, North Carolina, 1966 (acquired from the above)
Private collection (his son, by descent; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1998, lot 24)
Gloria E. Gurney, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Estate of the above (sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 29, 2006, lot 136)
John H. Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2011
Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, 1908 (probably acquired from the above)
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, circa 1908 (acquired from the above)
François Daulte, Paris, France, by 1947
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1965 (acquired from the above)
Private collection, North Carolina, 1966 (acquired from the above)
Private collection (his son, by descent; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1998, lot 24)
Gloria E. Gurney, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Estate of the above (sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 29, 2006, lot 136)
John H. Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2011
"Annual Academy Display," American Art News, vol. 7, March 13, 1909, p. 3
"Annual Academy Display: Second Notice," American Art News, vol. 7, March 20, 1909, p. 2
"Buffalo," American Art News, vol. 7, June 12, 1909, p. 2
"The Fine Arts: Miss Mary Cassatt's Exhibition," Boston Evening Transcript, February 9, 1909, p. 11
"The Fine Arts," Boston Evening Transcript, March 13, 1909, Part 2, p. 5
Royal Cortissoz, "Art Exhibitions: The Spring Collection of the National Academy of Design," New York Tribune, March 18, 1909, p. 7
"Pictures at the Academy," New York Evening Post, March 16, 1909, p. 7
"Around the Galleries," New York Sun, January 19, 1909, p. 6
"The Spring Academy," New York Sun, March 16, 1909, p. 6
"Pioneer Spirit in Academy Exhibition," New York Times, March 13, 1909, p. 6
"In the Art World of Many Cities," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 17, 1909, p. 8
"Art Glows Bright in Lenten Season." Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21, 1909, p. 7
"Chicago," American Art News, vol. 9, October 22, 1910, p. 2
"Art and Artists," Brooklyn Daily Standard Union, April 25, 1910, p. 4
Elisabeth Luther Cary, "Studio Talk—–Philadelphia," Studio, vol. 49, March 1910, p. 160
Elisabeth Luther Cary, "Studio-Talk," International Studio, vol. 40, April 1910, p. 160
Lena M. McCauley, "Chicago Art Institute Exhibition," Art and Progress, vol. 2, December 1910, p. 49
"Art," Nation, vol. 90, February 3, 1910, p. 121
Frank Moore Colby, ed., "Painting," New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year 1909, New York, 1910, p. 548
"Pittsburgh's Foreign Art Show," New York Evening Post, May 9, 1910, p. 9
"The Pennsylvania Academy," New York Sun, February 5, 1910, p. 6
"Much Good Painting in the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition—–Older Men Send Fine Work: Americans Living in France Well Represented—–Great Portraits by Sargent and Tarbell," New York Times Magazine, January 23, 1910, p. SM14
"Subject Pictures an Important Feature of the Philadelphia Exhibition—–Many Good Ones Shown: Modern Technique Preserves Freshness of Surface and Pure Color—–Much Attention Paid to Design," New York Times Magazine, January 30, 1910, p. SM14
James William Pattison, "Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute," Fine Arts Journal, vol. 23, July 1910, p. 15, illustrated
"The Annual Exhibition at the Academy of the Fine Arts Is Best of the Year, Surpassing in Paintings and Sculpture," Philadelphia Press, January 23, 1910, p. 14
"Art Exhibit Starts Monday of Next Week," Pittsburgh Daily Post, April 25, 1910, p. 5
"Cassatt at Durand-Ruel's," American Art News, vol. 9, January 7, 1911, p. 6
"Art in Many Phases Seen in the Galleries," Brooklyn Eagle, January 9, 1911, p. 9
"Mary Cassatt's Achievement: Its Value to the World of Art," Craftsman, vol. 19, March 1911, p. 543, illustrated
"Matters of Art," New York Tribune, January 8, 1911, p. 7, illustrated
"Mary Cassatt," Bulletin of Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, October 1911, illustrated n.p.
"Cassatt Painting," Syracuse Herald, July 2, 1911, p. 5C
"The Museum of Fine Arts," Syracuse Post-Standard, July 25, 1911, n.p.
"Corcoran Exhibit," New York Evening Post, December 28, 1912, p. 7
H. H. Pfahler, "Art Exhibit Opens To-day," Washington Herald, December 16, 1912, p. 2
"Art," Nation, vol. 96, January 2, 1913, p. 20
Achille Segard, Mary Cassatt: Un peintre des enfants et des mères, Paris, France, 1913, illustrated p. 204
James B. Townsend, "Corcoran Gallery Exhibition (Final Notice)," American Art News, vol. 11, January 11, 1913, p. 3
Frank Moore Colby, ed., "Painting and Sculpture," New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year 1913, New York, 1914, p. 515
Bessie Laub, "The Art Corner: The Art of Mary Cassatt," Louisville Courier-Journal, April 1, 1917, p. 33
"What Is Stirring in the Realm of Art." Brooklyn Eagle, April 29, 1917, p. 6
"Random Impressions in Current Exhibitions," New York Tribune, April 29, 1917, Section 3, p. 3
A. J. Philpott, "Art Exhibition to Open at Concord," Boston Globe, May 14, 1922, p. 12
Elisabeth Luther Cary, "Ten Eminent Women Painters," American Magazine of Art, vol. 14, March 1923, p. 154|
D. G., "The Plastic Club, Philadelphia," Christian Science Monitor, January 23, 1923, p. 6
Edward Longstreth, "Philadelphia," Art News, vol. 21, January 20, 1923, p. 9
Edward Longstreth, "Philadelphia," Art News, vol. 23, October 18, 1924, p. 10
"Miss Cassatt Will Abandon Art Work," Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, March 4, 1924, p. 3
Eleanor Jewett, "Art and Artists," Chicago Daily Tribune, April 26, 1925, p. E8
L. M., "Contemporary American Painting," American Magazine of Art, vol. 17, May 1926, p. 224
"American Artist is Dead in France," Boston Globe, June 16, 1926, p. A5
"Mary Cassatt, Famed as International Artist, Passes Away," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 17, 1926, p. 33
Lula Merrick, "In the New York Art Galleries," Spur, vol. 38, November 15, 1926, p. 70, illustrated
"Miss Mary Cassatt, Philadelphia Artist, Dies in Paris Home," New York Herald Tribune, June 16, 1926, p. 15
"Mary Cassatt Dies: An American Artist," New York Times, June 16, 1926, p. 25
"Mary S. Cassatt, Artist, Dies at 83," Philadelphia Public Ledger, June 16, 1926, p. 3
"Artists Every Child Should Know," American Childhood, vol. 12, April 1927, p. 40
"Philadelphia Show Honors Work of Mary Cassatt," Art News, vol. 25, May 7, 1927, p. 2
"Mary Cassatt's Story," Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 1927, p. 11
"Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot," Art News, vol. 29, October 25, 1930, p. 10
"With the Collector of Art and Antiques," Wall Street Journal, October 29, 1930, p.
4
Geneva Armstrong, Woman in Art, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1930, p. 252
Dorothy Grafly, "Studio Talk - Exhibitions: Lasting Fame Seen for Mary Cassatt, Brilliance Marks Her Paintings in New Exhibit Here," Philadelphia Public Ledger, January 18, 1931, p. 7
Eleanor Jewett, "Arts Club Holds First Exhibit of Season," Chicago Daily Tribune, November 29, 1931, p. D6
Helen Appleton Read, "Are Women Better Artists than Men?," Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, July 30, 1933, p. 9, illustrated
"Memorial Art Exhibition at Guild Hall," East Hampton Star, September 13, 1934,
p. 8
"Memorial to 67 Painters of U.S.," The New York Times, September 10, 1934, Books section, p. 15
Charles E. Offin, "From Ryder to George Luks," Brooklyn Eagle, February 9, 1936, p. 38
Thomas Simonton, "19th Century Art Displayed at Milch; Other Exhibitions," New York
American, February 8, 1936, p. 14
Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawing, Chicago, Illinois, 1938, p. 56, illustrated opp. p. 128
Christian Brinton, "A Glance in Retrospect," Mary Cassatt, 1845–1926, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1939, n.p.
"Baltimore Stages Retrospective of Mary Cassatt, Famed Expatriate," Art Digest, vol. 6, December 15, 1941, p. 8, illustrated
Margaret Breuning, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1944, p. 40, illustrated
Isabel Stevenson Monro and Kate M. Monro, Index to Reproductions of American
Paintings, New York, 1948, p. 125
Stuart Preston, "Art: Glimpse Below Iceberg's Surface," The New York Times, June 19, 1965, Food section, p. 26
Frederick A. Sweet, "Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt in the Collection of the Art
Institute," Museum Studies, vol. 2, 1967, p. 47, illustrated
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 505, p. 189, illustrated
Nancy Hale, Mary Cassatt, Garden City, New York, 1975, p. 130
Richard H. Love, Cassatt: The Independent, Chicago, Illinois, 1980, p. 139
Suzanne G. Lindsay, Mary Cassatt and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1985, pp. 92-93
Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1987, illustrated p. 138
Jane Silverman van Buren, The Modernist Madonna: Semiotics of the Maternal Metaphor, Indianapolis, 1989, p. 202n105
Henry Adams, et all., American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region, Kansas City, Missouri, 1992, p. 35n7
Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt: A Life, New York, 1994, p. 285, illustrated
Judith A. Barter, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, New York, 1998, pp. 359-362
Michelle Naimo Bird, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., p. 120
"Annual Academy Display: Second Notice," American Art News, vol. 7, March 20, 1909, p. 2
"Buffalo," American Art News, vol. 7, June 12, 1909, p. 2
"The Fine Arts: Miss Mary Cassatt's Exhibition," Boston Evening Transcript, February 9, 1909, p. 11
"The Fine Arts," Boston Evening Transcript, March 13, 1909, Part 2, p. 5
Royal Cortissoz, "Art Exhibitions: The Spring Collection of the National Academy of Design," New York Tribune, March 18, 1909, p. 7
"Pictures at the Academy," New York Evening Post, March 16, 1909, p. 7
"Around the Galleries," New York Sun, January 19, 1909, p. 6
"The Spring Academy," New York Sun, March 16, 1909, p. 6
"Pioneer Spirit in Academy Exhibition," New York Times, March 13, 1909, p. 6
"In the Art World of Many Cities," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 17, 1909, p. 8
"Art Glows Bright in Lenten Season." Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21, 1909, p. 7
"Chicago," American Art News, vol. 9, October 22, 1910, p. 2
"Art and Artists," Brooklyn Daily Standard Union, April 25, 1910, p. 4
Elisabeth Luther Cary, "Studio Talk—–Philadelphia," Studio, vol. 49, March 1910, p. 160
Elisabeth Luther Cary, "Studio-Talk," International Studio, vol. 40, April 1910, p. 160
Lena M. McCauley, "Chicago Art Institute Exhibition," Art and Progress, vol. 2, December 1910, p. 49
"Art," Nation, vol. 90, February 3, 1910, p. 121
Frank Moore Colby, ed., "Painting," New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year 1909, New York, 1910, p. 548
"Pittsburgh's Foreign Art Show," New York Evening Post, May 9, 1910, p. 9
"The Pennsylvania Academy," New York Sun, February 5, 1910, p. 6
"Much Good Painting in the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition—–Older Men Send Fine Work: Americans Living in France Well Represented—–Great Portraits by Sargent and Tarbell," New York Times Magazine, January 23, 1910, p. SM14
"Subject Pictures an Important Feature of the Philadelphia Exhibition—–Many Good Ones Shown: Modern Technique Preserves Freshness of Surface and Pure Color—–Much Attention Paid to Design," New York Times Magazine, January 30, 1910, p. SM14
James William Pattison, "Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute," Fine Arts Journal, vol. 23, July 1910, p. 15, illustrated
"The Annual Exhibition at the Academy of the Fine Arts Is Best of the Year, Surpassing in Paintings and Sculpture," Philadelphia Press, January 23, 1910, p. 14
"Art Exhibit Starts Monday of Next Week," Pittsburgh Daily Post, April 25, 1910, p. 5
"Cassatt at Durand-Ruel's," American Art News, vol. 9, January 7, 1911, p. 6
"Art in Many Phases Seen in the Galleries," Brooklyn Eagle, January 9, 1911, p. 9
"Mary Cassatt's Achievement: Its Value to the World of Art," Craftsman, vol. 19, March 1911, p. 543, illustrated
"Matters of Art," New York Tribune, January 8, 1911, p. 7, illustrated
"Mary Cassatt," Bulletin of Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, October 1911, illustrated n.p.
"Cassatt Painting," Syracuse Herald, July 2, 1911, p. 5C
"The Museum of Fine Arts," Syracuse Post-Standard, July 25, 1911, n.p.
"Corcoran Exhibit," New York Evening Post, December 28, 1912, p. 7
H. H. Pfahler, "Art Exhibit Opens To-day," Washington Herald, December 16, 1912, p. 2
"Art," Nation, vol. 96, January 2, 1913, p. 20
Achille Segard, Mary Cassatt: Un peintre des enfants et des mères, Paris, France, 1913, illustrated p. 204
James B. Townsend, "Corcoran Gallery Exhibition (Final Notice)," American Art News, vol. 11, January 11, 1913, p. 3
Frank Moore Colby, ed., "Painting and Sculpture," New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year 1913, New York, 1914, p. 515
Bessie Laub, "The Art Corner: The Art of Mary Cassatt," Louisville Courier-Journal, April 1, 1917, p. 33
"What Is Stirring in the Realm of Art." Brooklyn Eagle, April 29, 1917, p. 6
"Random Impressions in Current Exhibitions," New York Tribune, April 29, 1917, Section 3, p. 3
A. J. Philpott, "Art Exhibition to Open at Concord," Boston Globe, May 14, 1922, p. 12
Elisabeth Luther Cary, "Ten Eminent Women Painters," American Magazine of Art, vol. 14, March 1923, p. 154|
D. G., "The Plastic Club, Philadelphia," Christian Science Monitor, January 23, 1923, p. 6
Edward Longstreth, "Philadelphia," Art News, vol. 21, January 20, 1923, p. 9
Edward Longstreth, "Philadelphia," Art News, vol. 23, October 18, 1924, p. 10
"Miss Cassatt Will Abandon Art Work," Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, March 4, 1924, p. 3
Eleanor Jewett, "Art and Artists," Chicago Daily Tribune, April 26, 1925, p. E8
L. M., "Contemporary American Painting," American Magazine of Art, vol. 17, May 1926, p. 224
"American Artist is Dead in France," Boston Globe, June 16, 1926, p. A5
"Mary Cassatt, Famed as International Artist, Passes Away," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 17, 1926, p. 33
Lula Merrick, "In the New York Art Galleries," Spur, vol. 38, November 15, 1926, p. 70, illustrated
"Miss Mary Cassatt, Philadelphia Artist, Dies in Paris Home," New York Herald Tribune, June 16, 1926, p. 15
"Mary Cassatt Dies: An American Artist," New York Times, June 16, 1926, p. 25
"Mary S. Cassatt, Artist, Dies at 83," Philadelphia Public Ledger, June 16, 1926, p. 3
"Artists Every Child Should Know," American Childhood, vol. 12, April 1927, p. 40
"Philadelphia Show Honors Work of Mary Cassatt," Art News, vol. 25, May 7, 1927, p. 2
"Mary Cassatt's Story," Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 1927, p. 11
"Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot," Art News, vol. 29, October 25, 1930, p. 10
"With the Collector of Art and Antiques," Wall Street Journal, October 29, 1930, p.
4
Geneva Armstrong, Woman in Art, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1930, p. 252
Dorothy Grafly, "Studio Talk - Exhibitions: Lasting Fame Seen for Mary Cassatt, Brilliance Marks Her Paintings in New Exhibit Here," Philadelphia Public Ledger, January 18, 1931, p. 7
Eleanor Jewett, "Arts Club Holds First Exhibit of Season," Chicago Daily Tribune, November 29, 1931, p. D6
Helen Appleton Read, "Are Women Better Artists than Men?," Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, July 30, 1933, p. 9, illustrated
"Memorial Art Exhibition at Guild Hall," East Hampton Star, September 13, 1934,
p. 8
"Memorial to 67 Painters of U.S.," The New York Times, September 10, 1934, Books section, p. 15
Charles E. Offin, "From Ryder to George Luks," Brooklyn Eagle, February 9, 1936, p. 38
Thomas Simonton, "19th Century Art Displayed at Milch; Other Exhibitions," New York
American, February 8, 1936, p. 14
Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawing, Chicago, Illinois, 1938, p. 56, illustrated opp. p. 128
Christian Brinton, "A Glance in Retrospect," Mary Cassatt, 1845–1926, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1939, n.p.
"Baltimore Stages Retrospective of Mary Cassatt, Famed Expatriate," Art Digest, vol. 6, December 15, 1941, p. 8, illustrated
Margaret Breuning, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1944, p. 40, illustrated
Isabel Stevenson Monro and Kate M. Monro, Index to Reproductions of American
Paintings, New York, 1948, p. 125
Stuart Preston, "Art: Glimpse Below Iceberg's Surface," The New York Times, June 19, 1965, Food section, p. 26
Frederick A. Sweet, "Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt in the Collection of the Art
Institute," Museum Studies, vol. 2, 1967, p. 47, illustrated
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 505, p. 189, illustrated
Nancy Hale, Mary Cassatt, Garden City, New York, 1975, p. 130
Richard H. Love, Cassatt: The Independent, Chicago, Illinois, 1980, p. 139
Suzanne G. Lindsay, Mary Cassatt and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1985, pp. 92-93
Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1987, illustrated p. 138
Jane Silverman van Buren, The Modernist Madonna: Semiotics of the Maternal Metaphor, Indianapolis, 1989, p. 202n105
Henry Adams, et all., American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region, Kansas City, Missouri, 1992, p. 35n7
Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt: A Life, New York, 1994, p. 285, illustrated
Judith A. Barter, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, New York, 1998, pp. 359-362
Michelle Naimo Bird, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., p. 120