Lot 4
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast 1858 - 1924

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • Tuileries Garden (In the Tuileries Gardens)
  • signed Prendergast (lower left)
  • oil on canvas laid down on board
  • 10 1/2 by 13 1/2 inches
  • (26.7 by 34.3 cm)
  • Painted circa 1907.

Provenance

Charles Prendergast, 1924 (the artist's brother)
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Wilson, Canton, Ohio, 1948 (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's New York, May 22, 1980, lot 112, illustrated)
Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1987
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1987

Exhibited

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Maurice Prendergast: Paintings and Watercolors of Chartres, Dieppe, Dinard, Treport, Paris, St. Malo, November-December 1944, no. 8
Chicago, Illinois, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings in Oil and Watercolor by Maurice Prendergast with Watercolors by Charles Demuth and Carl Kohler, January-February 1946, no. 11
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924, October-December 1960, no. 13, illustrated p. 115

Literature

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 114, p. 237, illustrated

Condition

This painting is in excellent condition. Under UV: there is there is no apparent inpainting.
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