Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Mary Cassatt
The Banjo Lesson
Auction Closed
April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Mary Cassatt
1844 - 1926
The Banjo Lesson
signed in pencil Mary Cassatt (lower right)
drypoint and aquatint with monotype printed in colors on laid paper
plate: 11⅝ x 9¼ in. (29.5 x 23.4 cm.)
sheet: 16½ x 13¾ in. (42.1 x 35 cm.)
Executed circa 1893.
Peter Deitsch, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1964)
Sotheby's New York, February 14, 1980, lot 737 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 440 (acquired from the above)
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 156, p. 150, illustrated
Nancy Mowll Mathews & Barbara Stern Shapiro, Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, New York, 1989, no. 16, pp. 164-166, illustrated in color