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MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST (1859-1924)
Six Sketches of Ladies
monotype in colors on tissue-thin wove paper
Image: 1212 x 838 in. (317 x 213 mm.)
Sheet: 1558 x 1118 in. (396 x 283 mm.)
Executed circa 1891-1894.
Provenance
The artist.
Charles Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut, brother of the above, 1924.
Eugenie Van Kemmel, Westport, Connecticut, wife of the above, 1948.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Katherine Sturgis, Massachusetts, 1952.
Professor Nelson Goodman, Massachusetts, husband of the above.
Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.
Literature
Clark, Mathews & Owens 1583
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924, 1960-1961, no. 28.
New York City, New York, Davis & Long Gallery, The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast: A Loan Exhibition, April 4-28 1979, no. 9.
New York City, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, The Museum of Fine Arts; The Painterly Print, 1980-1981, no. 52.
Loan to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997.
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, 1997, no. 37.
Chicago, Illinois, Frederick Baker Inc., Monotypes of the 19th and 20th Centuries, October-November 2007, no. 63.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, April 3, 2016-January 5, 2017, p. 137, 331, no. 57, illustrated (p. 137).
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