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Beyond the Brushstroke: The Sam & Marilyn Fox Collection

Mary Cassatt

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)