May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 321

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
MARY CASSATT
Baby's Back.

Drypoint printed in dark brownish black on antique cream laid paper, 1890. 230x162 mm; 9 1/4x6 1/2 inches, full margins. Third state (of 3). Signed and inscribed "épreuve d'essai" in pencil, lower right. Armorial watermark. A superb, richly-inked impression of this very sarce print, with warm plate tone.

We have found only 9 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Breeskin 128.