
Beyond the Brushstroke: The Sam & Marilyn Fox Collection
Sketch of a Sleepy Baby
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November 21, 07:00 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Bid
220,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Beyond the Brushstroke: The Sam & Marilyn Fox Collection
Mary Cassatt
1844 - 1926
Sketch of a Sleepy Baby
signed Mary Cassatt (lower right)
pastel on paper laid down on board
24 ¾ by 18 ⅞ in.
62.9 by 47.9 cm.
Executed in 1880.
This work is included as no. 90 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.
(possibly) Dr. Étienne Goujon, Paris
Private Collection, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Huguette Berès, Paris
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco
Meredith Long & Co., Houston
Private Collection, Southwest (acquired from the above in 1974)
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1994, lot 31 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1987, no. 46, pp. 54-55, illustrated in color and p. 60 (titled Sleeping Baby)
Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1998, pp. 90, 193, illustrated (titled Study for Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child)
Ilene Susan Fort and Michael Quick, American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Los Angeles, 1991, p. 181, illustrated (titled Enfant entendu)
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