Mary Cassatt
Sketch of a Sleepy Baby , 1880 (Executed)
Lot #831 |
2025-11-21 |
Sotheby's, New York
Modern Day Auction
Category:
Works on Paper
Estimate:
USD 300,000 - 500,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N11730
Auction name: Modern Day Auction
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2025-11-21
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 19th Century American Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 24 Âľ by 18 â…ž in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
62.9
Width In Centimeters:
47.9
Height In Inches:
24.75
Width In Inches:
18.875
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Year notes: Executed in 1880.
Provenance
(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
Exhibited
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 )
Literature
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 )
Catalog summary
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. Provenance (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 Exhibited 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 ) Literature 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 )