May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
MARY CASSATT
Preparing Bill for an Outing.

Soft-ground etching printed in greenish brownish black on antique cream laid paper, circa 1889. 162x123 mm; 6 1/2x4 3/4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 25. Initialed in pencil, lower right, and inscribed "II. No. 19" in pencil, lower left. A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching.

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years. Breeskin 106.