Sep 22, 2016 - Sale 2422

Sale 2422 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 22,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
MARY CASSATT
Feeding the Ducks.

Color aquatint and soft-ground etching with drypoint on cream laid paper, circa 1894. 295x393 mm; 11 5/8x15 1/2 inches, wide margins. Third state (of 3). Edition of approximately only 25. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, important color print.

Ex-collection Sarah Choate Sears, Boston; Mrs. J. D. Cameron Bradley; Cameron Bradley; private collection; private collection, Florida, 2005.

We have found only 6 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Breeskin 158.