Lot 6030
  • 6030

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 - 1924)

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • Summer Afternoon
  • signed Prendergast (lower left)
  • watercolor and pastel on paper
  • 13 1/2 by 19 1/2 in.
signed Prendergast (lower left)

Provenance

Daniel Gallery, New York;
Ferdinand Howald, 1917;
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 1931;
Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1980;
Private Collection, New York, 1986;
Sotheby's, New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, December 5, 1996, sale 6927,  lot 47.

Exhibited

New York, Daniel Gallery, Paintings by Glackens, Lawson, Henri and Prendergast, February 1917;
Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Inaugural Exhibition, January-February 1931, no. 191;
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, February-March 1934, no. 12;
Indianapolis, Indiana, John Herron Institute, Watercolors by American Artists, February 1944;
Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, February 1948;
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Paintings from the Howald Collection, February 1952;
New Delhi, India, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, American Watercolor Exhibition, October 1954, no. 10;
Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University School of Art, 33 John Marin, Maurice Prendergast, and Charles Demuth Watercolors, June-July 1964;
New York, Kennedy Galleries, People, Places and Things: American Paintings 1750-1980, November 1980-January 1981, no. 18, illustrated;
New York, Kennedy Galleries, The American Tradition of Realism, Part II: Paintings and Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, April-May 1983, no. 4, illustrated;
New York, Kennedy Galleries, The Figure in American Art 1764-1983, May 1986.

Literature

Bulletin of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts: Inaugural Edition I, Columbus, Ohio, January 1931, pp. 11-12;
Hedley H. Rhys, "Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style," Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1952, no. 44, pp. 51, 110, 190, illustrated;
Marcia Tucker, American Paintings in the Ferdinand Howald Collection, Columbus, Ohio, 1969, p. 88;
College Art Association, "Maurice Brazil Prendergast - Painter," The Index of Twentieth Century Artists 2, New York, 1970, p. 358;
Ellen Glavin, S.N.D., and Eleanor Green, "Chronology," Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color, College Park, Maryland, 1976, p. 76;
Columbus Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Collection, Columbus, Ohio, 1978, p. 166;
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 1249, p. 514, illustrated.

Condition

The sheet is hinged to the mat along all four edges, and all four corners have been reinforced with another piece of paper. There is a small repair at the upper left corner. There are artist's pinholes at the upper left and right corners, and old tape residue on the reverse.
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