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Charles Prendergast

The Riders

Auction Closed

April 20, 12:24 AM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Charles Prendergast

1863 - 1948

The Riders



signed Charles Prendergast (lower left)

tempera and gold leaf on incised gessoed Masonite

21½ x 36 in. (54.6 x 91.4 cm.)

Executed circa 1933-35.

The artist
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
John Wilkie, New York (acquired from above in 1938)
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie's New York, December 4, 1997, lot 53
Wolf Family Collection No. 1145 (acquired from the above)
“Charles Prendergast: Kraushaar Galleries,” Art News, vol. 34, issue 5, 1935, p. 8
Carol Clark; Nancy Mowll Mathews; Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 2274, p. 685, illustrated
New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Charles Prendergast, 1935, no. 15
New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Art Gallery & Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Art of Charles Prendergast, 1968, no. 29, p. 67, illustrated
Palm Beach, Florida, Society of the Four Arts, Six American Romantic Painters, 1970, no. 47
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing, 2019-21 (on loan)