Lot 61
  • 61

Maurice B. Prendergast 1858-1924

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • The Terrace
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 14 by 19 3/4 in.
  • (35.5 by 50.2 cm)
  • Executed circa 1912-15.

Provenance

Charles Prendergast (the artist's brother), 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (his wife), 1946
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, 1946
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Ehrenfest, 1948
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, 1964
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Rifken, 1964
ACA Galleries, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Luria, by 1971 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, 1979, lot 177, illustrated)
Dr. Richard D. and Jane Burns, acquired at the above sale (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 24, 1990, lot 179, illustrated in color)
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1990

Exhibited

Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Paintings from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Milton Luria, January-March 1971, no. 60
Elkhart, Indiana, Midwest Museum of American Art, Panorama of American Art, May-July 1979, p.20 and on extended loan

Literature

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 492, no. 1151, illustrated

Condition

Good condition; unframed: affixed to the mat in two places along top edge, slightly faded.
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