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Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1844. Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Ordrupgaard in Copenhagen. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza have featured Mary Cassatt's work in the past.Mary Cassatt's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4 USD to 7,489,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,489,000 USD for Young Lady in a Loge Gazing to Right, sold at Christie's New York in 2022. Mary Cassatt has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, Telegraph and The Brooklyn Rail. The most recent article is Adding and Elevating Women Artists at The Art Institute written for Chicago Sun-Times in March 2024. The artist died in 1926.
In its Arts of the Americas gallery, the Chicago museum has been acquiring more works by women artists, making surprising discoveries and shining a light on some more-obscure items already in its collection.
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..Arousing many viewers' sympathies with works that captured mothers and their children with a warm gaze, Cassatt's name became eternally linked to this familial bond...
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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan)
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..What makes Cassatt’s work compelling is how she elevates what could be dismissed as mundane subject matter through her masterful approach to color and composition...
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