?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
MARY CASSATT The Stocking.
Drypoint printed in dark, brownish black on cream laid paper, 1890. 260x185 mm; 10 1/4x7 1/4 inches, full margins. Fifth state (of 6), before the scratch on the baby's left cheek. Edition of approximately only 25. Signed in pencil, lower right. With the artist's blue ink stamp (Lugt 604, lower right recto). Partial coat-of-arms watermark. A superb impression of this very scarce print, with richly-inked burr, strong contrasts and no sign of wear.
We have found only 5 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Breeskin 129.
