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Type:Painting
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Signed and Dated
Maurice Brazil Prendergast ART FOR SALE
1858 St. John's, Newfoundland - 1924 New York City. Known for: Modernist genre-crowds, landscape and still life painting.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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. Prendergast was born in St. John's, Newfoundla... Read full biography
Maurice Brazil Prendergast - Art for Sale (3 available)
Revere Beach
Type:Painting
Year:1896-97
Size:9.00" x 14.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
This stunning New England Beach is Quintessential Prendergast. Complete provenance & exhibition records. In pristine condition. An extremely rare find. We welcome your inquiry.
Autumn View
Type:Painting
Year:Circa 1910
Size:10.00" x 14.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Literature: Clark, Matthews and Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast—A Catalogue Raisonné, no. 1039, illustrated on page 469, Williamstown, MA 1989.