Still Life with Fruit and Flowers

Details

MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST (1859-1924)
Still Life with Fruit and Flowers
signed 'Prendergast.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1910-13.

Provenance

The artist.
Charles Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut, brother of the above, 1924.
Eugénie Van Kemmel, Westport, Connecticut, wife of the above, 1948.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
John Marin, Jr., Cape Split, Maine, 1958.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Private collection, 1980.
Sotheby's, New York, 28 May 1987, lot 216.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

C. Clark, N.M. Mathews, G. Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 274, no. 312, illustrated.

Exhibited

Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Selections from the Private Collection of Norma and John Marin, Jr., December 15, 1958-January 4, 1959, no. 30 (as Still Life with Flowers and Fruit).

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Lot Essay

Maurice Prendergast painted approximately fifteen fruit still-life paintings circa 1910-13, which exhibit the influence of Paul Cézanne's tilted tabletops and patched color application while also epitomizing Prendergast's own quintessential mosaic-like painting style. Other examples are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago and Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

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