Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924)
"Can-Can Dancer"
watercolor and pencil on paper
circa 1893-94
signed lower left
8 1/2" x5"
Provenance: The following is sourced from Christie's: (Probably) Kraushaar Galleries, New York. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Pierce, Boston, Massachusetts. Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Joseph Lionel Shaw, acquired from the above, 1964. Sotheby's New York, 5 December 1985, lot 141, sold by the above. Acquired by the present owner from the above. Offered at Christie's 11/20/2019 lot 83.
Exhibitions: New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Paintings by Glackens, Lawson, Prendergast, Sloan, September 20-October 17, 1953, n.p.,no.12 (as Portrait of a Girl), San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1968-71, on loan, San Francisco California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Three Centuries of America Painting from the M.H. de Young Museum and the California Palace of Honor, December 19, 1970-February 7,1971, p. 103, no.39, Lot Notes: Signed "Prendergast" lower left image, 8 1/2"x5" (21.6x12.7cm),
Literature: C.Clark, N.M. Matthews, G. Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonne, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p.349, no.589, illustrated
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