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Maurice Brazil Prendergast

City Point

Auction Closed

April 20, 07:56 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1858 - 1924

City Point


inscribed with the artist's initials in red crayon (probably in another hand)

monotype printed in colors on two sheets of joined Japan paper

image: 11⅜ x 17⅞ in. (29 x 45.5 cm.)

sheets overall: 13¼ x 19⅝ in. (33.8 x 50 cm.)

Executed circa 1895-97, this work is unique.

Charles Prendergast (acquired by bequest from the artist in 1924)
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (acquired by descent from the above in 1948)
Kraushaar Galleries, New York (consigned by the above in 1955)
Mrs. Majorie Maxon (acquired from the above in 1955)
Kraushaar Galleries, New York (consigned by the above)
Lawrence Fleischman (acquired from the above in 1965)
Kennedy Galleries, New York (consigned by the above by 1966)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1971)
Davis & Langdale, New York (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 1037 (acquired from the above April 10, 1992)

(possibly) Boston, Boston Society of Water Color Painters, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1939, no. 299

New York, C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, Maurice Prendergast: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors and Monotypes, 1950, no. 53

New York, C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast, 1952, (no no.)

Annandale-on-Hudson, William Cooper Procter Art Center, Bard College, Maurice Prendergast: The Monotypes, 1967, no. 23

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews & Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Prendergast Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown and Munich, 1990, no. 1691, p. 610, illustrated