Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Sketch for "Sara...Feeding Her Dog" (No. 2)
signed 'Mary Cassatt' (lower right)
pastel on paper laid down on board
22¼ x 16¼ in. (54 x 41.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1901-07.
Provenance
Private collection, New York.
[Sale] Kende Galleries, New York, 19 May 1949, lot 75 (as Portrait of a Little Girl).
F.A.R. Gallery, New York.
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, New York and California.
Parke-Bernet, New York, 15 January 1958, lot 25 (as Seated Child).
Private collection, New York.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., 18 May 1978, lot 102A.
Rose Faggen, New York, acquired from the above.
Literature
A.D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 283, no. 849, illustrated.
Lot Essay
This painting will be included in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.
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