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Description: signed Mary Cassatt , l.r. pastel on tan paper

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Dimensions: measurements sight: 26 1/2 by 22 in. alternate measurements (72.4 by 55.9 cm)

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Provenance: Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Mr. and Mrs. David Meltzer, Toronto, Canada, 1955 (acquired from the above)
By descent in the family (sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 6, 2003, lot 141, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

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Exhibited:

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Published: Adelyen Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970 no. 564 (titled Dora in a Large Round Blue Hat), p. 204

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Notes: Executed circa 1909.This pastel will be included in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTOR