MARY CASSATT (1844-1926)

Lot 136
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 136 | MARY CASSATT (1844-1926)
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$ 80 000 – 120 000
MARY CASSATT (1844-1926)
Sketch of 'Sara in a Green Bonnet'
signed 'Mary Cassatt' (lower right)
pastel on canvasboard
25 ¼ x 13 ½ in. (64.1 x 34.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1901




Provenance

Payson T. Thompson, New York.
Albert E. McVitty, Bryn Mawr; Estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 December 1949, lot 47.
Irene Mayer Selznick, New York (acquired at the the above sale); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 1991, lot 12.
(probably) Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

“The Graphic Art of Mart Cassatt in Varied Media at Baltimore Museum” in ArtNews, 25 January 1936, vol. XXXIV, p. 12 (titled Little Girl in Green Bonnet).
W.E. Baum, “Mary Cassatt Becomes a Philadelphia Tradition” in Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin, 8 February 1942.
A.D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 150, no. 350 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mary Cassatt, March-April 1928, no. 10 (titled Head of a Child).
Baltimore Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt, January-February 1936, no. 2 (titled Little Girl in a Green Bonnet).
Haverford College, Mary Cassatt, May-June 1939, no. 27 (titled Little Girl in Green Bonnet).
Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Mary Cassatt, November-December 1939, no. 10 (titled Head of Girl in Green Hat).
Baltimore Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt, November 1941-January 1942, no. 44 (illustrated; titled Little Girl in a Green Bonnet).
Philadelphia, Print Club, February 1942.
New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., A Loan Exhibition of Mary Cassatt, October-December 1947, no. 42 (titled Little Girl in a Green Bonnet).



Further details

This work is included as no. 352 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.
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