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MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST (1859-1924)
Feeding Pigeons (Lady with Pigeons)
titled in pencil (at the lower left sheet edge)
monotype in colors on tissue-thin wove paper
Image: 834 x 534 in. (222 x 146 mm.)
Sheet: 1378 x 10 in. (222 x 146 mm.)
Executed circa 1895-1897.
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.
Private collection, 1960.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1961.
Sotheby's New York, 2 May 2003, lot 61.
Vance Jordan Fine Art Inc., New York, acquired from the above;
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2003.
Literature
Clark, Mathews & Owens 1632
Exhibited
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, William Cooper Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Maurice Prendergast: The Monotypes, May 1967, no. 24.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art Collecting Philadelphia Style: Selected Works from a Private Collection, September 19-October 27, 1968, no. 13.
Dallas, Texas, The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The M.P. Potamkin Collection, 1970, no. 75.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary (From the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin), November 19, 1972-January 3, 1973, no. 118.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Graphic Styles of the American Eight, February 28-April 11, 1976, no. 88.
New York City, New York, Davis & Long Company, The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast, April 4-28, 1979, p. 85, no. 50, illustrated (p. 85).
FURTHER DETAILS
This work is in a frame made by Charles Prendergast.
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