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An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Central Park (Summer in Central Park)

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1858 - 1924


Central Park (Summer in Central Park)

signed Prendergast (lower right)

oil on canvas

18 ⅛ by 16 ¼ in.

46 by 43.3 cm.

Executed circa 1907-10.

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)

John J. Brady Jr., Des Moines (acquired from the above by 1963)

Alexander Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1987)

Sam Porter Fine Arts, Great Neck, New York

Acquired from the above in 1989 by the present owner

“Prendergast,” Art Digest, vol. 14, 1 April 1940, p. 9

Dorothy Burgess, “The Wonderful World of Art: Prendergast’s Works Sparkle With Spontaneity,” Omaha Sun, 28 June 1962, p. 10

Eleanor Green, “Maurice Prendergast, Myth and Reality,” American Art Review, vol. 4, July 1977, pp. 89-103

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, 1990, no. 227, p. 257, illustrated

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, March - April 1940, no. 13

Omaha, Joslyn Museum, Living with Art, June - July 1962 

Des Moines Art Center, Art in Iowa from Private Collections, October - November 1963, no. 44, n.p., illustrated

Iowa City, University of Iowa, Stanley Museum of Art, A Personal Collection: Selections from the Private Collection of John Brady Jr., October - November 1975, no. 4, n.p., illustrated in color on the cover

College Park, Maryland, University of Maryland Art Gallery; Austin, University of Texas, University Art Museum; Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Des Moines Art Center and Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color, September 1976, no. 91, pp. 116-117 and 154 illustrated in color

New York, Davis & Long Co., Maurice Prendergast, May 1977, no. 91