Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926) "Looking Into The Hand Mirror (No. 2)", Drypoint On Laid Paper

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)
"Looking into the Hand Mirror (No. 2)", drypoint on laid paper.
Circa 1905.
Presented custom matted, framed and glazed.

Dimensions:
Print plate: 7 3/4" H x 5 3/4" W
Frame: 15 1/2" H x 13" W

About the work

(Breeskin, 202).
Unsigned.
Plate size 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (20.8 x 14.4 cm), framed.

Condition: Unobtrusive toning and foxing to margins, not examined out of frame.

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Materials
Drypoint on paper
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Print
MC
Mary Cassatt
American, 1844–1926

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Mary Cassatt’s soft, serene portraits of mothers and children won her praise and acceptance from painters including Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro; Cassatt was the only American invited to join their Impressionist group. Her lush paintings and prints offered a rare feminine perspective in the male-dominated art world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cassatt was, in fact, one of only three women who were formally associated with Impressionism—Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot were her counterparts. Cassatt developed a unique aesthetic that united the palettes of Impressionism with elements of Old Masters compositions and stylistic tenets of Japanese woodblock prints. She participated in many important exhibitions during her lifetime, including a number of salons in Paris, the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the famed 1913 Armory Show. Her work has sold for seven figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

High auction record
US$7.5m, Christie's, 2022
Collected by a major museum
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)|The Metropolitan Museum of Art|National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.|Hammer Museum|Dallas Museum of Art|Art Institute of Chicago
Selected exhibitions
2021
Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920, Milwaukee Art Museum
2018
Women Artists in Paris: 1850-1900, American Federation of Arts
2017
Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism, Denver Art Museum
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Mary Cassatt
Looking into the Hand Mirror No. 2, c. 1905
Drypoint on paper
MARY CASSATT
Looking into the Hand Mirror (No. 2).

Drypoint on grayish laid paper, 1905. 209x147 mm; 8x5 7/8 inches, full margins. A very good impression with traces of drypoint in the woman's hair. Breeskin 202.
Artist or Maker
Mary Cassatt
Condition Report
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A good impression with slight traces of drypoint to the woman's hair. Some wear to the paper commensurate with age and display but overall in good form and presents well.