Mary Cassatt - The Stocking 1891
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The Stocking 1891
78x57cm pastel on paper
Museu e Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
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From Museu e Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon:
Derived from genre painting, this pastel owes its more significant plastic quality to the expressiveness of the drawing, simultaneously revealing Cassatt’s obvious fascination for the correct usage of white, something which seduced a significant number of her Impressionist contemporaries. Also common to other works of the same type is the decision to contrast the more finished style of the rosy cheeks of the figures with the freeness of the diagonals that schematise the remaining elements of the composition, the result of a rapid execution that sought above all to capture the spontaneity of the moment.