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Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Picnic Grove

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sold by the Whitney Museum of American Art to Support Future Acquisitions

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1858 - 1924


Picnic Grove

signed Maurice B. Prendergast (lower right)

watercolor, pencil and ink on paper

14 by 20 in.

35.6 by 50.8 cm.

Executed circa 1918. 

The artist
Charles Prendergast (acquired from the above in 1924)
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (acquired by descent from the above in 1948)
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Dr. John Mayers (acquired from the above in 1954)
New Gallery, New York (acquired in 1955)
Mr. Arthur G. Altschul, New York (acquired from the above in 1955)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1976 by the present owner
Hedley Howell Rhys, "Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style," PhD dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1952, no. 64, pp. 137, 187, illustrated
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors, New York, 1976, p. 249
Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Review 1976/77, New York, 1978, p. 44
Patterson Sims, Maurice B. Prendergast: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection, New York, 1979, p. 32
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Rasionné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 1351, p. 536, illustrated
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fourth Exhibition of Watercolors and Pastels, 1927, no. 81 (as Gloucester)
Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, The Prendergasts: Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, 1938, no. 56 (as Salem Willows)
Boston, Margaret Brown Gallery, Maurice Prendergast, 1950, no. 16
New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Maurice Prendergast: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors and Monotypes, 1950, no. 35
New York, Kraushaar Galleries, William Glackens and His Friends, 1957, no. 30
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924, 1960, no. 119
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America: An Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Watercolor Society, 1966-67, no. 135
New York, American Federation of the Arts; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, 1976-77
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Selections from the Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest, 1977, p. 44, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 20th Century American Drawings: Five Years of Acquisitions, 1978, p. 49
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice B. Prendergast: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection, 1980, p. 19, illustrated