MARY CASSATT

The Banjo Lesson (B. 156; M./S. 16)

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MARY CASSATT
The Banjo Lesson (B. 156; M./S. 16)
drypoint, aquatint and monotype in colors, circa 1893, on laid Japan, a fine impression, the colors fresh, signed in pencil, from the proposed edition of about 40, with full margins on three sides, the left edge slightly trimmed, a tiny and unobtrusive surface nick at the bottom rim of the banjo, mat staining and traces of printer's ink in the margins, some soft creasing and surface soiling showing mostly at the deckle edges, otherwise in good condition
P. 11 7/8 x 9 3/8in. (301 x 237mm.)

來源

Gift from the artist to her second cousin, Mrs. Thomas A. Scott
Thence by descent to Edgar Scott, her grandson

拍品專文

Rather than the three copper plates normally used in her earlier color prints, Cassatt combined two plates to produce The Banjo Lesson. Unlike the earlier images in which she used pure drypoint and aquatint (often inked à la poupée), nearly half of the colored areas of The Banjo Lesson are rendered in monotype. The brilliant blue sleeves and orange collar of the performer as well as the coral-pink dress of the listener are all achieved by this painterly printing method. Mathews and Shapiro note that of a proposed edition of forty, a mere fifteen impressions have been located. The present example raises the total to sixteen.