Mary Cassatt

American, 1844–1926

GATHERING FRUIT [LE POTAGER], 1893

gathering fruit [le potager] by mary cassatt

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Medium: Prints and multiples, Drypoint, soft-ground and aquatint printed in colors

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Marc Rosen Fine Art, Ltd.

New York

About this Artwork

Edition: Intended edition of 20
Size Notes: Plate 16 5/8 x 11 5/8 in.

Sheet 19 ¾ x 15 3/8 in.
Movement: Impressionism
Catalogue Raisonné: Breeskin 157; Mathews and Shapiro 15,
Provenance: Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Henri M. Petiet, Paris (acquired from the estate of Ambroise Vollard)

Description

An exceptionally fine, vivid proof of the final state, with much burr, on old laid paper with watermarks ADRIAAN ROGGE, interlaced initials AR, and fleur-de-lis in crowned shield, annotated M in lower-left margin

This is an extraordinarily impression of one of Cassatt’s greatest color prints. Here, she has refined the principal elements of the central panel in the “Modern Woman” mural that she executed for the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition.

Although an edition of 20 was intended, only a small number of impressions have been located.