Lot 31
  • 31

Maurice B. Prendergast 1858-1924

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • Holiday
  • signed Prendergast, l.r.
  • watercolor, pencil and pastel on paper
  • 13 3/4 by 22 1/4 in.
  • (34.9 by 56.5 cm)
  • Executed circa 1920-23.

Provenance

Mr. Charles Prendergast (the artist's brother), 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (his wife), 1948
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1987
Acquired from the above, 1987

 

Exhibited

New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, The Unknown Pastels, Maurice Prendergast, November-December 1987, p. 16, illustrated

Literature

Cecily Langdale, "The Late Watercolor/Pastels of Maurice Prendergast," Antiques, no. 132, November 1987, pp. 1089, 1093,  illustrated
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Matthews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 1388, illustrated p. 543, illustrated in color p. 189

Condition

Very good condition, unframed: affixed to the mat on the reverse in three places along top and bottom edge, irregular paper edge at upper left.
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