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Lot 11
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • School Day (Clark, Mathews & Owens 1604)
  • Monotype
  • 150 by 211 mm 5 7/8 by 8¼ in
  • sheet 235 by 313 mm 9¼ by 12¼ in
Monotype printed in colors with pencil additions, c. 1895-97, on tissue-thin laid Japan, framed

Provenance

The artist to Charles Prendergast, 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Petschek, 1959
Xenia Rose Forma, 1979
Estate of Xenia Rose Forma, 2002
Doyle New York, November 11 2003, lot 360
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Kraushaar Galleries, New York, Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast, May 7 - May 31, 1956
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Maurice Prendergast: The Monotypes, no. 59, May 1 - May 21, 1967
Davis & Long Company, New York, The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast, A Loan Exhibition, no. 25, April 4 - April 28, 1979

Condition

The second pull. With wide margins. The print is in good condition. The margins with some surface soiling and discoloration, a few pin holes. A few flattened creases, and also a few paper losses at sheet edges made up with a thin sheet of Japan paper (as is usual for this delicate kind of paper).
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