FRANCE
Director : Eric Coatalem
The Eric Coatalem Gallery, founded in 1986, is specialized in the paintings, drawings and sculptures of French masters from the 17th to the 20th century.
Since 1994, the gallery has presented solo exhibitions of Lubin Baugin (1610 - 1663), George-Augustus Wallis (1761-1847), François Perrier (1594-1649), Louyse Moillon (1610-1696), Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) but also exhibitions with the main French masters of the seventeenth century (Baugin, Le Brun, Le Dwarf, Le Sueur, Perrier, Stella, Vouet ...) or the eighteenth century (Fragonard, Chardin, Boucher, Hubert Robert, ... ..). Each year, the gallery publishes one or two catalogs with the novelties dating from the 17th to the 20th century.
As of 1994, the gallery regularly participates at the Biennale Paris and the Salon du Dessin in Paris and at Tefaf Maastricht and Tefaf New York.
Mary CASSATT
Pittsburg 1844 - Le Mesnil-Théribus 1926
Portrait of Pierre, circa 1906
Pastel on paper laid on canvas,
H. 58 cm ; L. 48 cm
Signed lower left
Provenance
Collection of Madam Albert Morel d'Arleux, mother of the sitter
(acquired from the artist)
Sale, Aguttes, October 26th, 2015, lot 17
Private collection, France (by descent)
Bibliography
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: a catalogue raisonné of the oils, pastels, watercolors, and drawings, Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, n°480
Mary Cassatt: a new catalogue raisonné of the paintings, pastels, and watercolors originally published by The Cassatt Committee, under the reference n°MCCR 437
H. K. Stratis, "Innovation and Tradition in Mary Cassatt's Pastels, A study of Her Methods and Materials », Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman, Chicago, 1999 (related study).