Mary Cassatt

Smiling Sara in a Big Hat Holding Her Dog (No. 1)

Session begins in

May 14, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private French Collection

Mary Cassatt

1844 - 1926

Smiling Sara in a Big Hat Holding Her Dog (No. 1)

signed Mary Cassatt (lower right)

pastel on paper

22 ½ by 17 in.

57 by 43 cm.

Executed circa 1906-07.

This work is included as no. 447 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.

(probably) Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Raoul Bouchara, Paris (acquired circa 1935)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

(possibly) Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawing, Chicago, 1938, p. 56

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 373, p. 156, illustrated

Exh. Cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, 1998, p. 226