ID 1030779
Lot 25 | MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST (1859-1924)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
Snowy Day, Boston
signed 'Prendergast' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 ¼ x 26 ¼ in. (51.4 x 66.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1907-10.
Provenance
The artist.
Charles Prendergast, brother of the above, 1924.
Mrs. Charles Prendergast, wife of the above, 1948.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Victoria Thorne Matthews, 1956.
A. Bruce Matthews.
Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1993, lot 115, sold by the above.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
'Around the Galleries,' Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 25, 1909, p. 17 (as Brimstone Corner).
'Hopkinson, Pepper and Prendergast Joint Exhibition,' Boston Evening Transcript, March 15, 1911, p. 23 (as Brimstone Corner).
H.H. Rhys, Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style, Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1952, p. 152 (as Park Street Church, Boston).
Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts, 1953, p. 4, illustrated.
C. Clark, N.M. Mathews and G. Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 258, no. 229, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Macbeth Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings by a Group of Boston Artists, April 1909, no. 27 (as Brimstone Corner).
Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Copley Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Hopkinson, Charles Harvey Pepper, Maurice Prendergast, March 1911, no. 14 (as Brimstone Corner).
Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, America and Impressionism, October-November 1951.
| Artist: | Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 - 1924) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 - 1924) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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