Lot 52
  • 52

Maurice B. Prendergast 1858-1924

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • Girls on the Beach
  • watercolor, pastel and pencil on paper

  • 11 1/2 by 7 3/4 in.
  • (29.2 by 19.7 cm)
  • Executed circa 1915-16.

Provenance

Charles Prendergast (the artist's brother), 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (his wife), 1948
Mr. Perry T. Rathbone, Cambridge, Massachusetts (gift from the above), circa 1968
By descent in the family to the present owners

Literature

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 1255, p. 515, illustrated

Condition

Very good condition; unframed: hinged to the mat in two places at top edge.
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Catalogue Note

This painting retains its original frame by Charles Prendergast.