MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST
(American, 1859-1924)
Hindu Dancer
1914, watercolor, pastel, and pencil on paper
signed Prendergast lower right
18 x 10 3/4 in., frame: 25 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.
Provenance:
The artist;
to Charles Prendergast, 1924;
Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948;
The Collection of Robert Brady, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico;
Private Collection;
Adelson Galleries, New York;
by descent within a Massachusetts family.
Exhibitions:
Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color, cat. no. 74. (accompanied by a copy of the exhibition catalogue). Exhibition traveled to: College Park, Maryland, University of Maryland at College Park, September 1 - October 6, 1976; Austin Texas, University of Texas at Austin Art Gallery, October 17 - November 21, 1976; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, December 7, 1976 - January 2, 1977; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, January 14-February 20, 1977; Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, March 1 - April 15, 1977.
Literature:
Frackman, Noel. Maurice Prendergast. Arts Magazine 52 (September 1977): 19.;
Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast / Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné. Williamstown, Mass.: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990, and Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1990, p. 487, no. 1132.
Green, Eleanor. Maurice Prendergast: The Art of Impulse and Color, University of Maryland: 1976. cat. no. 74, illus. p. 139. Of the painting, Green writes, This seemingly atypical painting is less unusual when seen in the context of other works done between the time Prendergast returned from Venice in the early spring of 1912 and the exhibition at Carroll Gallery from Feb. 15 to Mar. 15 1915. It is possible that it might even have been in that exhibition under the title Female Figure (no. 40) because here, as in other works known to have been in that exhibition, the painting is flat and decorative, with an insistent emphasis given to an over-all working of the surface.