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Charles Prendergast

Peacocks, Flowers and Butterflies: Carved and Painted Box

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April 20, 07:56 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Charles Prendergast

1863 - 1948

Peacocks, Flowers and Butterflies: Carved and Painted Box


tempera and gold leaf on incised wood

2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high

Executed circa 1920-25.

Violette de Mazia Collection, Merion, Pennsylvania
Christie's New York, May 25, 1989, lot 254
Wolf Family Collection No. 0972 (acquired from the above)
Carol Clark; Nancy Mowll Mathews; Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 2937, p. 717, illustrated