Sleepy Nicolle by Mary Cassatt
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Sleepy Nicolle

Mary Cassatt · c. 1900

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist to Ambroise Vollard (1867-939), Paris, 1904 [Chicago 1998; letter from Abris Silberman of July 2, 1953, in curatorial file]; to E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York [Breeskin 1970]; to Dr. John Jay Ireland, Chicago, July 2, 1953 [letter mentioned above]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt," January 14-February 25, 1954, pp. 32-33 (ill.), cat. 25, cat. by Frederick Sweet; also traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 25-May 23, 1954.
  • New York, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, "An Exhibition of Paintings for the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archaeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc." October 12-November 1, 1955, p. 41 (ill.), cat. 29.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," October 10, 1998-January 10, 1999, pp. 308 and 326, cat. 86 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013

Literature

Published references

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 90.
  • Frederick Sweet, "Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt," The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 2 (1967), p. 44, fig. 11.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report (1967-1968), p. 26.
  • Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings (Washington, D.C., 1970), no. 318 (ill.), as Sleepy Nicolle.
  • Sarah Webb and Kristen Fredrickson, Singular Women (Berkeley, 2003).
  • Kathleen Pyne, Modernism and the Feminine Voice,
  • O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle (California, November 2006).

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