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Property of a Private Collector, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Montparnasse

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1858 - 1924

Montparnasse


signed Prendergast (lower right)

watercolor and pencil on paper

13 ¾ by 20 in.

34.9 by 50.8 cm.

Executed circa 1907.

Charles Prendergast (the artist's brother; acquired by descent from the artist in 1924)
C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York
Arthur Bradley Campbell, Palm Beach (acquired in 1943)
Parke-Bernet Galleries New York, 27 October 1954, lot 7 (consigned by the above)
The Milch Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)
Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in 1954)
Sotheby's New York, 21 May 2003, lot 53 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Hedley Howell Rhys, Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1952, no. 45, pp. 110, 189, illustrated
Abraham A. Davidson, "The Eight Plus: Meyer and Vivian Potamkin Collect," Auction 5, 1971, p. 45, illustrated
Clark S. Marlor, The Society of Independent Artists: The Exhibition Record 1917-1944, Park Ridge, 1984, p. 448
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, 1990, no. 916, p. 440, illustrated
Richard J. Wattenmaker, Maurice Prendergast, New York, 1994, no. 70, p. 91, illustrated
New York, C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolors by Maurice Prendergast, 1930, no. 2
New York, Society of Independent Artists; Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art, The Prendergasts: Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, 1936-38 
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Special Exhibition of Watercolors and Monotypes by Maurice B. Prendergast, 1939, no. 11
Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, American Watercolors, 1943, no. 56
Palm Beach, Palm Beach Art League, Norton Gallery of Art, Masters of Watercolor: Marin, Demuth, Prendergast, 1950, no. 30
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Twentieth Century American Painting and Sculpture from Philadelphia Private Collections, 1958, no. 23
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924, Prendergast Centennial Exhibition, 1960-61, no. 102, p. 147, illustrated (as Montparnasse, Paris)
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, 1966, no. 32, illustrated
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The M.P. Potamkin Collection, 1970, no. 53 (as Street Scene, Montparnasse)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary (From the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin)1972-73, no. 122, p. 54
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, American Art from the Collection of Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin, 1989, p. 13 (as Street Scene, Montparnasse)