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Mother's Goodnight Kiss
Mary Cassatt · 1888
Provenance
Ownership history
- From the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris [Chicago 1998]; sold to Mrs. Potter Palmer (née Bertha Honoré; 1850-1918), Chicago, April 29, 1892 [Chicago 1998]; given to the Art Institute, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, January 9, 1922.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Catalogue of a Memorial Collection of Works by Mary Cassatt," December 21, 1926-January 24, 1927.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress," May 31-October 31, 1934, cat. 435.
- London, Marlborough Fine Art, "Mary Cassatt (1845-1927)," June-July 1953, cat. 9.
- Madison Art Association, March 1956.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, February 23, 1994-December 14, 1994.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," October 10, 1998-January 10, 1999, pp. 271 and 322, cat. 50 (ill.).
- "AN AMERICAN CONVERSATION: WORKS ON PAPER FROM TWO COLLECTIONS," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April-July 2005 (Gallery 163)
- Milwaukee Art Museum, "Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings", September 12, 2011 - January 8, 2012, p. 54 & 76, pl. 9, cat. by Christopher Lloyd.
Literature
Published references
- Achille Segard, Un peintre des enfants et des mères: Mary Cassatt (Paris, 1913), no. 52B (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook (Chicago, 1925), p.129, no. 803.
- Margaret Breuning, Mary Cassatt (New York, 1944) p. 21 (ill.).
- Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 69.
- Frederick Sweet, "Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967), pp. 38-39, fig. 5.
- Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings (Washington, D.C., 1970), no. 152 (ill.), as Mother's Goodnight Kiss.
- Nancy Mowell Matthews, Mary Cassatt (New York, 1981), p. 75, no. 65.
- The Letters of Pauline Palmer: A Great Lady of Chicago's First Family (2005).
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