Lot 20
  • 20

Maurice B. Prendergast

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Maurice B. Prendergast
  • The Dancers
  • signed Prendergast (lower left)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 11 by 8 1/4 inches
  • (27.9 by 21 cm)
  • Executed circa 1893-94.

Provenance

Robert Stark (acquired directly from the artist)
Constanza Roascio (sold: Sotheby's, New York, April 17, 1975, lot 99)
Private Collection, New England (acquired from the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 27, 1993, lot 9)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 590, p. 349, illustrated                                                

Condition

Watercolor and pencil on paper. In generally good condition; hinged at all 4 corners to a sheet of archival matboard with pieces of tape, verso; some expected fading and a few scattered minor spots of discoloration; mild soiling: a few scattered pin dots of foxing/ light staining
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