Promenade on the Seashore No. 2

Details

MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST (1859-1924)
Promenade on the Seashore No. 2
signed indistinctly 'Prendergast' (lower left)—inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on panel
8 ½ x 12 ½ in. (21.6 x 31.8 cm.)
Painted by 1904.

Provenance

Private collection.
Adelson Galleries, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001.

Literature

(Probably) C. FitzGerald, "A Significant Group of Paintings," New York Evening Sun, January 23, 1904, p. 4 (as Promenade on the Shore).
E. Glavin, E. Green, Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color, exhibition catalogue, College Park, Maryland, 1976, p. 44.
C. Clark, N.M. Mathews, G. Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 648, no. 1864.
N.M. Mathews, Maurice Prendergast, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 20.

Exhibited

New York, National Arts Club, Exhibition of Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Davies, Luks, Prendergast, January 1904.
(Probably) San Francisco, California, Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Post-Exposition Exhibition, January 1-May 1, 1916, p. 50, no. 5123.

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Lot Essay

The present work is one of seven oils entitled Promenade on the Seashore. According to Nancy Mowll Mathews, when exhibiting "at the National Arts Club in 1904, he did not submit the New York watercolors, but entered seven oil studies of beach scenes...While these studies of sea and clouds...contrasted with the portrait and figure studies shown by Henri, Luks, Glackens, Sloan, and Davies, Prendergast was not considered an outsider...Prendergast at this point was considered as important and influential in New York as Henri." (Maurice Prendergast, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 20)

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