Lot 138
- 138
Mary Cassatt 1845-1926
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description
- Mary Cassatt
- Mother Louise Holding Up Her Blue-Eyed Child
- signed Mary Cassatt, l.r.
- pastel on paper
- 28 1/2 by 21 in.
- (72.4 by 53.3 cm)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris, France
sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 10, 1944, no. 13, lot #A, illustrated, as Mère et Enfant
sale: Galerie Charpentier sale, Paris, France, June 17, 1958
de Poplavsky
sale: Sotheby's, London, England, April 24, 1968, no. 88, as (Mère et Bébé )
sale: Christie's, New York, December 1, 1989, lot 180, illustrated in color
sale: Christie's, New York, May 26, 1994, lot 86, illustrated in color
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 10, 1944, no. 13, lot #A, illustrated, as Mère et Enfant
sale: Galerie Charpentier sale, Paris, France, June 17, 1958
de Poplavsky
sale: Sotheby's, London, England, April 24, 1968, no. 88, as (Mère et Bébé )
sale: Christie's, New York, December 1, 1989, lot 180, illustrated in color
sale: Christie's, New York, May 26, 1994, lot 86, illustrated in color
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Exhibited
Paris, France, Musée Marmottan, Les Femmes Impressionistes: Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Berthe Morisot, October-December 1993, no. 12, p. 130, illustrated as Mère et Bébé
Literature
Adelyn D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 138, no. 312, illustrated
Geoffrey Grigson, "Images of Tenderness: The Mother and Child in Art," Country Life, December 4, 1975, pp. 1518-20, illustrated
Geoffrey Grigson, "Images of Tenderness: The Mother and Child in Art," Country Life, December 4, 1975, pp. 1518-20, illustrated
Catalogue Note
According to Adelyn Breesk✱in, the model for the mother is Louise Frissier of Fresneaux, Mont Chevreuil, near Mary Cassatt's country house in the Oise region, fifty miles northwest o🌃f Paris.