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Devotion to work
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Exhibitions 3 Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman
(The Art Institute, Chicago, till 10 January)
Devotion to work
Roger Kimball
In some ways it is unfortunate that the single best picture in this retrospective of Mary Cassatt's work is a portrait of the artist by her friend Edgar Degas. Painted in the early 1880s, `Mary Cassatt Seated, Holding Cards', shows the artist in her mid-to late-thirties (she died in 1926), a dark, elegantly garbed figure leaning forward, the only articulated thing in a field of scumbled russets, browns, and grey-white brushstrokes. Perhaps she is deliberately showing her ...
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