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Property from an Esteemed American Collector

Charles Prendergast

The Racetrack

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed American Collector

Charles Prendergast

1868 - 1948


The Racetrack

signed C. Prendergast. (lower right)

tempera and pencil with gold and silver leaf on incised gessoed Masonite

27 ¾ by 32 ⅜ in.

70.5 by 82.5 cm.

Executed circa 1937.

Mrs. Charles Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut (acquired directly from the artist in 1948)

Kraushaar Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Mr. and Mrs. I.H. Vogel, Philadelphia (acquired in 1953)

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Woolworth, New York

Coe Kerr Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1974)

Vance Jordan Fine Art Inc., New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jeannete Lowe, "Prendergast: Decorative Paintings in a Miniaturist Style," Art News, 6 November 1937, p. 15

Hamilton Basso, "Profiles: A Glimpse of Heaven-II," The New Yorker, 3 August 1946, p. 31

Margaret Breuning, "Decorative Art of Charles Prendergast," Art Digest, 1 April 1947, p. 18

"Charles Prendergast," Art News, April 1947, p. 44, illustrated

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owen, Maurice Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, 1990, no. 2291, pp. 204 and 689, illustrated in color

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Decorative Panels by Charles Prendergast, October - November 1937, no. 5

Andover, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, The Prendergasts: Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, September - November 1938, no. 19

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Charles Prendergast, March - April 1947, no. 8

New York, National Academy of Design, First Half 121st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Graphic Art, January 1947, no. 17

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Sport and Circus, November 1950, no. 33

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Charles Prendergast 1869 - 1948: Memorial Exhibition, January 1954, no. 33

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Art Gallery; Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, The Art of Charles Prendergast, October 1968 - February 1969, no. 36, pp. 29 and 71, illustrated in color

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., The Art of Charles Prendergast, March 1969, no. 24, illustrated in color

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Important Recent Acquisitions, February 1972, no. 52, illustrated