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    Does anyone out there know the title of a mary cassatt painting that sold for {$} 2,800,000 at sothebys in new york in 1989 the title is ------------ reading to her daughter what word does the blank stand for ?

    Question #17094. Asked by plious.

    Tabby Tom

    Augusta.

    'Augusta Reading to her Daughter' by Mary Cassatt was sold for {$2,800,000} at Sotheby's in NYC on 9 May 1989. A year before, at Christie's rooms in NYC, her painting 'The Conversation' fetched {$4,100,000.} Altogether six of the ten highest prices ever paid for paintings by women (as at late 2000) were for Mary Cassatt works.

    Source: 'The Top Ten of Everything' (2001 edition), published by Dorling Kindersley.

    Mar 13 02, 10:18 AM

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