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Property of a Private Collector, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Waterfall

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1858 - 1924

Waterfall

signed Prendergast (lower left)


oil on canvas

24 ⅛ by 20 ⅛ in.

61 by 50.8 cm.

Executed in 1911. 

Carroll Galleries, New York (acquired by 1915)
John Quinn (acquired from the above in 1915)
American Art Association, New York, 9 February 1927, lot 490 (consigned by the above)
C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York (acquired in 1927)
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, New York (acquired from the above in 1927)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (gifted from the above in 1935)
Kraushaar Galleries, New York (acquired by 1945)
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Todd Makler, Merion, Pennsylvania (acquired in 1957)
Martha Jackson, New York (acquired in 1966)
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired in 1966)
Jules Brassner, New York (acquired in 1973)
Mrs. and Mrs. Daniel R. Goldenson, Stockton, New Jersey (acquired in 1975)
R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago
Stegner Collection (acquired from the above in 1982)
Hammer Galleries, New York (acquired in 1984)
Jules Brassner (acquired from the above)
Pfeil Collection (acquired by 1992)
Joan Michelman, New York
The Forbes Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1996)
Christie's New York, 29 November 2001, lot 139 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Forbes-Watson, ed., The John Quinn Collection of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Huntington, New York, 1926, pp. 25, 178, illustrated (as Figure Study)
Forbes-Watson, "The John Quinn Collection," The Arts, 1926, p. 91
"Paintings Sold at Auction," American Art Annual, 1927, pp. 380-85
"Sale of the Quinn Collection is Completed," Art News, 1927, p. 11
"Whitney Museum Opens Prendergast Memorial Display," New York Herald Tribune, 1934, p. 21
H.H. Rhys, "Maurice B. Prendergast," Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924, Boston, 1960, p. 52
Richard J. Wattenmaker, Puvis de Chavannes and the Modern Tradition, Ontario, Canada, 1975, p. 192
Judith Zilczer, The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant Garde, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 178
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll-Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast and Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, 1990, no. 357, p. 285, illustrated
C. Forbes, "The Forbes Magazine Collection," American Art Review, 1999, pp. 128-141