Lot 140
  • 140

Maurice B. Prendergast 1858-1924

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • Figures in a Cove
  • signed Prendergast indistinctly, l.l.
  • watercolor on paper
  • 14 by 20 in.
  • 35.6 by 50.8 cm.
  • Executed circa 1920-23.

Provenance

Charles Prendergast (the artist's brother), 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (his wife), 1948
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mrs. Marjorie Maxon, 1958
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1962

Literature

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 1378, p.54,1illustrated

Condition

Unframed: affixed to the mat in four corners, some fading.
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