Lot 50
  • 50

Maurice B. Prendergast 1858-1924

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • Pont Marie
  • signed Prendergast, l.r.
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 11 by 16 in.
  • (27.9 by 40.6 cm)
  • Executed circa 1907.

Provenance

Mr. Charles Prendergast (the artist's brother), 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (his wife), 1948
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Fillin, 1954
Barbara Mathes, New York, 1984 (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above, 1984

Exhibited

New York, Davis Galleries, A Family Collection, May 1959, no. 33
Albany, New York, Albany Institute, A Family Collection: Drawings, Sculptures and Oils by American Artists Selected from the Collection of Lucille and Walter Fillin and Their Children, July-September 1962, no. 37
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Eight, February-March 1964
Southampton, New York, Parrish Museum, The Eight, August-September 1974, no. 47
Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum, Six Decades: Collecting, June-July 1981, p. 12, illustrated
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Continuity and Diversity in American Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1984, no. 29, illustrated

Literature

Jane H. Kay, Christian Science Monitor, May 28, 1965, illustrated
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Matthews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 919, p. 441, illustrated

Condition

Good condition, unframed: hinged to the mat in two places along top edge, remnants of old hinges in two places on each side of the reverse, pinholes in corners, some staining along edges. A pencil sketch of three women is on the reverse.
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