ID 1540454
Lot 470 | MARY CASSATT (1844-1926)
Estimate value
$ 5 000 – 7 000
Slight Sketch of a Nubian in a Blue Robe
watercolor and pencil on paper
15 ½ x 11 ¾ in. (39.4 x 29.8 cm.)
Executed in 1911.
Provenance
The artist.
Mathilde Vallet, France, acquired from the above, 1927.
Galerie A.M. Reitlinger, Paris, 19 May-30 June 1931, lot 44, sold by the above.
Durand-Ruel, New York, 1966.
Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 25 October 1985, lot 89.
Borghi & Co., New York.
Anastasia and Jerry Balaban, Flushing, New York, by 2000.
By descent to the present owner from the above.
Literature
A.D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 237, no. 682, illustrated.
Further details
This work is included as no. 646 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: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
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