Mary Cassatt - Sleepy Thomas Sucking His Thumb 1893
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Sleepy Thomas Sucking His Thumb 1893
55x46cm pastel on paper
E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich:
The fact that Mary Cassatt, the daughter of an American banker, succeeded in securing a leading position among the French Impressionists, with whom she began to exhibit in 1879, is all the more remarkable as she was by no means averse to the seductions of her privileged social position. She owes this unusual fame, which outlasted her death, not only to her high gifts but also to her strong character. She never excluded herself from the cool criticism to which she subjected the work of others. In this she was quite similar to her friend and mentor among the Impressionists, Edgar Degas. She shared with Degas an enthusiasm for the Japanese coloured woodcut, which she got to know with him especially at the exhibition of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1890, and which inspired her to create a sequence of ten colour etchings.