Lot Essay
As Breeskin notes, no impressions of the presumed etching from this soft-ground transfer drawing have been discovered.
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Two Girls Playing in a Sandbox (B. supp. IV; Br. CR 732 [see literature])
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MARY CASSATT
Two Girls Playing in a Sandbox (B. supp. IV; Br. CR 732 [see literature])
soft-ground transfer pencil drawing, circa 1880, on thin wove paper, signed with initials 'M.C.' in pencil, the full sheet, with remains of soft-ground medium offset on the reverse, platemark imprint at the sheet edges, surface soiling, otherwise in good condition
S. 7¾ x 6 in. (197 x 152 mm.)
Two Girls Playing in a Sandbox (B. supp. IV; Br. CR 732 [see literature])
soft-ground transfer pencil drawing, circa 1880, on thin wove paper, signed with initials 'M.C.' in pencil, the full sheet, with remains of soft-ground medium offset on the reverse, platemark imprint at the sheet edges, surface soiling, otherwise in good condition
S. 7¾ x 6 in. (197 x 152 mm.)
Provenance
Robert Hartshorne, New Jersey (L. 2215b)
By descent to the present owner.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
A.D. Breeskin, The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt, New York, 1979, cat. IV (supplement).
A.D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 253, no. 732, illustrated.
A.D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 253, no. 732, illustrated.