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Property from an Important American Collection

Maurice B. Prendergast

East Boston Ferry

Auction Closed

May 19, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collection

Maurice B. Prendergast

1858 - 1924

East Boston Ferry



signed Prendergast (lower left)

oil on panel

14 ½ by 12 ¾ inches

(37.5 by 33 cm)

Painted in 1907-10.

The artist
Charles Prendergast, 1924 (his brother)
Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948 (by descent)
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, 1953 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 21, 2003, lot 20)
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above 
Hedley Howell Rhys, Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1952, p. 150
Bennard B. Perlman and John Sloan, The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show, Westport, Connecticut, 1979, p. 143, illustrated
Bennard B. Perlman, Painters of the Ashcan School: The Immortal Eight, New York, 1988, p. 143, illustrated
Linda Bantel, "The Potamkin Collection of American Art," The Magazine Antiques, August 1989, p. 299
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 235, p. 259, illustrated