Lot 42: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Sara Holding a Cat
signed 'Mary Cassatt' (upper right)
oil on canvas
16¼ x 13 in. (41.3 x 33 cm.)
Painted circa 1907-08.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum, 1941 (as Blond Girl with Cat).

A.D. Breeskin, letter to Mrs. A.J. Oppenheimer, San Antonio, Texas, June 1, 1967.
A.D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 185, no. 492, illustrated.

Julius Stern, Berlin, Germany.
Sale: Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, 22 May 1916, no. 7.
John Goggin.
[With]M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1939.
Pierre F. Nesi, Hollywood, California, by 1941.
Hugo Perls, New York.
[With]M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1946.
Dr. Frederic G. Oppenheimer, San Antonio, Texas, acquired from the above, 1947.
Private collection, San Antonio, Texas, by descent.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Demmon, Atherton, California and Washington, D.C., 1989.
Joan Michelman, New York, by 1994.
Private collection.
Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 44.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2000.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Sara Holding a Cat
signed 'Mary Cassatt' (upper right)
oil on canvas
16¼ x 13 in. (41.3 x 33 cm.)
Painted circa 1907-08.