ID 1334496
Lot 232 | MARY CASSATT (1844-1926)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
Head of Julie, Looking Down
signed with initials 'M.C.' (lower right)
pastel on paper laid down on board
16 x 12 ¾ in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm.)
Drawn circa 1909
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Weissman, Palm Beach (by 1961); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 November 1989, lot 144.
Literature
A.D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, Washington, D.C, 1970, p. 198, no. 542 (illustrated).
K. Sharp, "Lifetime Exhibition History" in Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, p. 362.
Exhibited
(possibly) Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Ninth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, December 1923-January 1924 (titled Portrait of a Lady).
University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Renoir to Picasso: 1914, February-March 1963, pp. 16 and 28, no. 15 (illustrated; titled Portrait of a Lady).
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Color Prints, February-April 1978, no. 35.
West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery and School of Art (on loan, circa 1980).
Further Details
This work is included as no. 597 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.
Artist: | Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) |
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Applied technique: | Pastel on paper |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Genre: | Portrait |
Auction house category: | Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
Artist: | Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) |
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Applied technique: | Pastel on paper |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Genre: | Portrait |
Auction house category: | Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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