Lot 79
  • 79

MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST | May Day

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • After Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • May Day
  • signed Prendergast (lower left)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 14 by 20 inches
  • (35.6 by 50.8 cm)
  • Executed circa 1900-03.

Provenance

The artist
Charles Prendergast (his brother), 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Rhonie H. Berlinger, 1958 (acquired from the above)
Estate of the above

Literature

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 807, p. 415, illustrated

Condition

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