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Property of a Private Collector, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Montparnasse

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1858 - 1924

Montparnasse


signed Prendergast (lower right)

watercolor and pencil on paper

13 ¾ by 20 in.

34.9 by 50.8 cm.

Executed circa 1907.

Charles Prendergast (the artist's brother; acquired by descent from the artist in 1924)
C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York
Arthur Bradley Campbell, Palm Beach (acquired in 1943)
Parke-Bernet Galleries New York, 27 October 1954, lot 7 (consigned by the above)
The Milch Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)
Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in 1954)
Sotheby's New York, 21 May 2003, lot 53 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Hedley Howell Rhys, Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1952, no. 45, pp. 110, 189, illustrated
Abraham A. Davidson, "The Eight Plus: Meyer and Vivian Potamkin Collect," Auction 5, 1971, p. 45, illustrated
Clark S. Marlor, The Society of Independent Artists: The Exhibition Record 1917-1944, Park Ridge, 1984, p. 448
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, 1990, no. 916, p. 440, illustrated
Richard J. Wattenmaker, Maurice Prendergast, New York, 1994, no. 70, p. 91, illustrated