CASSATT (MARY) Autograph letter signed ('Mary Cassatt') to Julie Pissarro ('Madame'), in French, expressing her deepest sympathies for her great sorrow, and her own infinite sadness at the unexpected death of Camille Pissarro, her old friend whom she held in such high esteem, ending '...Our little circle is shrinking more and more; the best ones are leaving us...', 2 pages on a bifolium, light dust-staining, creased at folds, 8vo (175 x 112mm.), Beaufresne par Fresneaux- Montchevreuil Oise, [n.d. but after 12 November 1903] Footnotes: 'LES MEILLEURS S'EN VONT': Mary Cassatt's heartfelt expression of sympathy on the death of Camille Pissarro, to his widow. Our letter is undated but was presumably written shortly after 12 November 1903, the day Pissarro died in Paris. At the end of November Mary wrote to Theodate Pope '...I feel sad over his loss, I had known him for so many years, & at one time we saw so much of each other, but he had lived a long time, though he was in the full enjoyment of all his faculties...' (Nancy Mowll Mathews (ed.), Cassatt and her Circle, Selected Letters, 1984, p.289). As our other letter from Cassatt to Julie Pissarro in the present sale illustrates, after his death she played an active role in helping Julie Pissarro disperse her husband's collection (see lot 104). It is not published in the Selected Letters. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing