Mary Cassatt - Clissa Turned Left with Her Hand to Her Ear 1890-1893
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Clissa Turned Left with Her Hand to Her Ear 1890-1893
64x50cm pastel on paper
Private Collection
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Sotheby’s :
Executed circa 1890 to 1893, Clarissa, With Her Hand to Her Ear, Turned Left, perfectly manifests Cassatt’s thoroughly modern approach to this traditional subject. Determined to forge a career as a painter, Cassatt arrived in Paris in early 1866. Although she initially studied with academic painters and regularly submitted her work to the Paris Salon, Cassatt struggled to conform to what she felt were the imitative conventions of official French art. She began to produce work that resolutely represented the world she knew, rather than attempting to emulate the masters of the past.