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Property from an Important New York Collection

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Columbus Circle (New York)

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1858 - 1924


Columbus Circle (New York)

signed Prendergast. (lower right)

watercolor, pencil and ink on paper

15 by 22 ¾ in.

38.1 by 57.9 cm.

Executed circa 1900-03.

Charles Prendergast, New York (acquired by descent from the artist in 1924) 

Mrs. Eugenie Van Kemmel Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut (acquired by descent from the above in 1948)

Kraushaar Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Milch Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rubin (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jacob Getlar Smith, "The Watercolors of Maurice Prendergast," American Artist, February 1956, pp. 52-57, illustrated

Bernard Perlman, "Three Reasons to Visit N.Y.: Sargent, Prendergast, Louis.," Baltimore Daily Record, 19 November 1986, p. 14, illustrated

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Matthews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, 1990, no. 82, p. 417, illustrated

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, This is Our City: An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints, 1941, no. 121

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Survey of American Watercolors, 1952, no. 47

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Watercolors by the Masters, Dürer to Cézanne: Loan Exhibition, 1952, no. 52

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924, 1960, no. 95, pl. 95, illustrated

New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, The Remembered Image: Prendergast Watercolors 1896-1906, 1986, no. 28, p. 12, illustrated