Maurice Brazil Prendergast

(Newfoundland/America, 1858-1924)

The Sands, St. Malo, circa 1907, signed lower left "Maurice Prendergast", watercolor on paper, sight 15-1/4 x 21-1/2 in.; silver finished wood frame, 21-3/4x 28 x 1-1/8 in.

Provenance: The artist; Charles Prendergast, 1924; Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York, NY (label verso): Dr. James B. and Ray Slater Murphy, New York, NY; Descended in the family; Private Collection, New York, NY

Literature: Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews, Gwendolyn Owen, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast, A Catalogue Raisonne, 1990, page 436, catalog #898, ill.

Exhibited: Galleries of Joseph Brummer, New York, NY, "Exhibition of Works by Maurice B. Prendergast and Charles E. Prendergast" (#35), April 4-23, 1921; C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY, "Exhibition of Watercolors" (#2), November 16-29, 1924; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "Second Exhibition: Watercolors and Pastels" (#108), January 15-February 15, 1925; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, "The Fifth International Exhibition of Water Color Paintings" (#319), May 1-June 4, 1925 (label verso); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "Fourth Exhibition of Watercolors and Pastels" (#79, as Beach at San Malo), February 17-March 13, 1927