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THBMaurice Prendergast Watercolor & Pencil on Paper
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Charlottesville, VA 22911
United States
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LiveApr 23, 2016 - Apr 24, 2016
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- Lot Description
Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858-1924) watercolor and pencil on paper depicting a Parisienne Can-Can dancer and most likely a sketch or study for his larger work "The Dancers" 1893-94; signed to lower left "Prendergast"; measures approximately 15-3/4" x 13-3/4" with elaborately carved frame and has a sight image of approximately 7" x 4-7/8"; measures approximately 8" x 6" out of frame; in Good condition.Maurice Prendergast was an Impressionist painter, born in 1858 in St. John's, Newfoundland, and at age 10 moved to Boston with his family. In the mid-1870s, he was an apprentice to a painter of show cards, and from this job, he began working with watercolor, his principal medium until 1900 when he turned to oil painting. Later he worked as a letterer, sign painter, and poster designer and during the late 1880s, worked in beach resorts in the Boston area. Much influenced by the Post-Impressionists and Fauves in Paris, Maurice Prendergast became a leading name in modernist American art and is known for his depictions of urban leisure-class people enjoying themselves in idyll landscapes and beach scenes. His style was based on a carefully adjusted combination of colors, which were applied to the canvas in dots, patches, and layers. His compositions were typically laid out in horizontal zones that flattened forms and emphasized the richness of the surface texture. He stylized his figures, which were mostly female, into monumental goddesses, sometimes nude and sometimes clothed, who assume the stately poses of the antique but keep their humanity by playing with a dog or sporting a fashionable hat. Early in his career, he painted with watercolor but switched to oil in 1900. By the time of his death in New York City in 1924, Prendergast had become one of the most famous American painters, well known for his views of the coastlines, beaches and parks in and around New England and Italy. He was a member of the New York Water Color Club; Copley Society (1898); Boston Water Color Club; Guild of Boston Artists; American Painters and Sculptors; Society of Independent Artists and the New Society of Artists. Prendergast is represented in almost all major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Boston's Museum of Fine Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Williams College Museum (including archival material); Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum; Worcester Art Museum; Cincinnati Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; Detroit Institute of Art; Fogg Museum; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Terra Museum of American Art; Lehigh University; Los Angeles County Museum and many more throughout the world.
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