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Property of the Berger Collection Educational Trust, sold to benefit future philanthropy

MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST | UNTITLED (KNEELING MAN)

Lot Closed

July 26, 04:21 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of the Berger Collection Educational Trust, sold to benefit future philanthropy

MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST

1858 - 1924

UNTITLED (KNEELING MAN)

signed Prendergast, inscribed Paris and dated 91 (lower right)

watercolor and pencil on paper

image: 6 ¾ x 3 ¾ inches (17.1 x 9.5 cm)

sheet: 7 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches (19.7 x 12.1 cm)

Executed circa 1891.

The artist

Charles Prendergast, 1924 (the artist's brother, by descent)

Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948 (by descent)

Davis Gallery, New York

Private collection, New York (sold: Sotheby's, New York, September 26, 1996, lot 92)

Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado (acquired at the above sale)

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, illustrated no. 526, p. 333