Mar 08, 2016 - Sale 2407

Sale 2407 - Lot 76

Unsold
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
MARY CASSATT
Crocheting Lesson.

Drypoint on cream laid paper, circa 1902. 450x266 mm; 17 3/4x10 1/2 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2), with the reverse signature in the plate lower left. Signed and numbered 19/50 in pencil, lower margin. Published by L'Estampe Nouvelle, Paris, with the blind stamp (Lugt 886, lower right). Van der Ley watermark. A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce print.

Ex-collection Gerard Henri-Gilbert (1879-1943), a philately expert. Breeskin 178.