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April 2nd., 1937

TO: The Decorators Picture Gallery, Inc.,
    554 Madison Avenue, New York.

FROM: Jacques Selligmann & Co, Inc.,
      3 East 51st St., NY

CASSATT, Mary:  Portrait of a Young Girl.
Oil, measuring 39-1/2"x 32"
Signed lower left.
From the collection of Count Doria.
Price [3?]]9,000 

[[underline]] MARY CASSATT, [[/underline]] celebrated for her paintings of women and children, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1845; died in Paris in 1927. Her early childhood was spent in Paris but she was educated in this country, attending school in Philadelphia. Later she travelled through Europe, settling in Paris in 1879, where Degas influenced her to join the Impressionists. Among her friends there were the foremost artists of the day - Courbet, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, Pissaro, etc. She exhibited with the Impressionists first in 1879.

It was through Mary Cassatt's great friendship with Degas and the late Mrs. Horace Mavemeyer, that Mrs. Havemeyer formed her splendid collection of modern French paintings.