The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Easter Procession, St. Marks
Auction Closed
April 20, 12:24 AM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1858 - 1924
Easter Procession, St. Marks
signed Maurice B Prendergast (lower right); signed Prendergast (lower left); bearing the inscription Venice 1898 (on the reverse)
watercolor and pencil on paper
18¼ x 14¼ in. (46.4 x 26.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1898-99.
Morris D.C. Crawford, Sr.
Morris Crawford, Jr.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ross, New York (acquired in 1956)
Estates of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ross, New York (acquired in 1981)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (consigned by the above in 1985)
Mr. & Mrs. David M. Malcolm (acquired from above in 1985)
Sotheby's New York, November 30, 1989, lot 207
Wolf Family Collection No. 0988 (acquired from the above)
Morris Crawford, Jr.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ross, New York (acquired in 1956)
Estates of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ross, New York (acquired in 1981)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (consigned by the above in 1985)
Mr. & Mrs. David M. Malcolm (acquired from above in 1985)
Sotheby's New York, November 30, 1989, lot 207
Wolf Family Collection No. 0988 (acquired from the above)
Lottie Lenn, "Museum Shows Prendergast," The Pilot, 1960, n.p., illustrated
Exh. Cat., Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color, 1976, p. 40
Exh. Cat., New York, Davis & Langdale, The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast: A Loan Exhibition, 1979, p. 12
Carol Clark; Nancy Mowll Mathews; Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 680, p. 375, illustrated
Richard J. Wattenmaker, Maurice Prendergast, New York, 1994, no. 26, pp. 43-44, illustrated
Richard J. Wattenmaker, “Maurice Prendergast at the Whitney,” The New Criterion, vol. 9, 1990, p. 39
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Prendergast in Italy, 2009-10, no. 680, fig. 45, pp. 42-43, 171, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color, 1976, p. 40
Exh. Cat., New York, Davis & Langdale, The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast: A Loan Exhibition, 1979, p. 12
Carol Clark; Nancy Mowll Mathews; Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 680, p. 375, illustrated
Richard J. Wattenmaker, Maurice Prendergast, New York, 1994, no. 26, pp. 43-44, illustrated
Richard J. Wattenmaker, “Maurice Prendergast at the Whitney,” The New Criterion, vol. 9, 1990, p. 39
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Prendergast in Italy, 2009-10, no. 680, fig. 45, pp. 42-43, 171, illustrated
Boston, Boston Art Club, Water Color Club: Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, 1900, no. 96 (as Interior of St. Marks)
New York, William Macbeth Gallery, Exhibition of Watercolors and Monotypes in Color by Maurice B. Prendergast, 1900, no. 25 (as Interior, St. Mark’s, Venice)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Maurice B. Prendergast: 1859-1924, Centennial Exhibition, 1960-61, no. 67, pp. 84, 143, illustrated
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, The Remembered Image: Prendergast Watercolors 1896-1906, 1986, fig. 8, p. 10, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Maurice Prendergast, 1990-91, no. 24, p. 69, illustrated
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, 1993, no. 130, pp. 434-36, illustrated
New York, William Macbeth Gallery, Exhibition of Watercolors and Monotypes in Color by Maurice B. Prendergast, 1900, no. 25 (as Interior, St. Mark’s, Venice)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Maurice B. Prendergast: 1859-1924, Centennial Exhibition, 1960-61, no. 67, pp. 84, 143, illustrated
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, The Remembered Image: Prendergast Watercolors 1896-1906, 1986, fig. 8, p. 10, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Maurice Prendergast, 1990-91, no. 24, p. 69, illustrated
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, 1993, no. 130, pp. 434-36, illustrated