Lot 96
  • 96

Maurice Brazil Prendergast 1858 - 1924

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • Beach Scene, New England
  • signed Prendergast (lower right)
  • watercolor and pastel on paper
  • 13 7/8 by 19 7/8 inches
  • (35.2 by 50.5 cm)
  • Executed circa 1916-19.

Provenance

Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, California
Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
Victor Potamkin, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
David David Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Harriet and Mortimer Piller, Buffalo New York, 1965 (acquired from the above; sold: Christie's, New York, December 4, 1996, lot 244, illustrated)
Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado (acquired at the above sale)

Exhibited

Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Museum of Art, Collector's Choice, October-November 1966, no. 70
Oxford, Ohio, Miami University, 1984

Literature

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 1300, pp. 524-25, illustrated

Condition

This work is in good condition. The sheet is laid down on panel. There is some adhesive staining along the top and center right edges.
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