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Mother Combing Sara's Hair (No. 2)
Details
MARY CASSATT (1844-1926)
Mother Combing Sara's Hair (No. 2)
with counterproof signature (lower right)
pastel counterproof on tissue-thin Japan paper mounted to wove paper
Image: 18 ¼ x 24 1⁄8 in. (46.4 x 61.3 cm.)
Sheet: 20 3⁄8 x 26 3⁄8 in. (51.8 x 67 cm.)
Executed circa 1905-10.
Mother Combing Sara's Hair (No. 2)
with counterproof signature (lower right)
pastel counterproof on tissue-thin Japan paper mounted to wove paper
Image: 18 ¼ x 24 1⁄8 in. (46.4 x 61.3 cm.)
Sheet: 20 3⁄8 x 26 3⁄8 in. (51.8 x 67 cm.)
Executed circa 1905-10.
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Henri M. Petiet, Paris.
Private collection, France, by descent from the above.
Marc Rosen Fine Art and Adelson Galleries, New York, 2004.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Henri M. Petiet, Paris.
Private collection, France, by descent from the above.
Marc Rosen Fine Art and Adelson Galleries, New York, 2004.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
P.A. Ivinski, "Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt," Antiques, vol. CLXVI, November 2004, pp. 150-51, illustrated (as Mother Combing Sara's Hair).
Exhibited
New York, Marc Rosen Fine Art and Adelson Galleries, Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt, November 1, 2004-January 14, 2005, pp. 37, 76-77, no. 1, illustrated.
Further details
This is a counterpoof of Breeskin no. 348.
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