Lot 8
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast 1858 - 1924

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • The Paris Omnibus
  • signed Prendergast, l.r.

  • watercolor and charcoal on paper
  • 13 3/4 by 20 in.
  • (34.9 by 50.8 cm)
  • Executed in 1904.

Provenance

Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1927
Mrs. Laurence S. Rockefeller, 1947 (gifted from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 30, 2005, lot 25, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, February-March 1934 (as Paris Bus)

Literature

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 922, p. 441, illustrated, also illustrated in color pl. 40