Property from the Collection of Carolyn & Roger Horchow, Dallas, Texas
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1858 - 1924
Gray Day, Venice
signed Maurice Prendergast and dated 1899 (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
12 3/4 by 18 1/2 inches
(32.4 by 47 cm)
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Charles Prendergast (by descent)
[with]Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mrs. Huddleston Rogers, 1942 (acquired from the above)
Paul Peralta-Ramos (by descent)
[with]Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
[with]Rhya Edelman
Private collection
Adelson Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1991
"Water Colors and Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast," Washington Star, October 28, 1962
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, 688, p. 377, illustrated
Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ninth Exhibition of Watercolors and Pastels, January-February 1932, no. 40
Lynchburg, Virginia, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Twenty-Fifth Annual Art Exhibition of American and European Paintings, March 1936, no. 18 (as Gray Day in Venice)
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Arts, Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures, Graphic Arts, June-November 1936, no. 18
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, International Watercolor Exhibition, October 1938, no. 49
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Special Exhibition of Watercolors and Monotypes by Maurice B. Prendergast, October-November 1939, no. 2
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, The Remembered Image: Prendergast Watercolors 1896-1906, October-December 1986, no. 13, p. 10