Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858–1924)
Crepuscule, ca. 1912-13 [ca. 1918-23 catalogue raisonné]
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Oil on canvas
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21 x 28 1/8 inches
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Signed lower left: Prendergast
Provenance
- The artist
- (Possibly) John F. Kraushaar, New York, New York, acquired from above
- (Possibly) Mrs. John F. Kraushaar, New York, New York
- Antoinette Kraushaar, New York, New York
- Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, New York
- Nancy M. Daly, by 1990
- Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, May 19, 2010, lot 23
- Private collection
- Burrichter/Kierlin collection, Winona, Minnesota, 2012
- Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota, on long-term loan from above
- Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox
Exhibited
An Important Collection of Paintings and Bronzes by Modern Masters of American and European Art, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, New York, December 4–30, 1922
Illustrated Catalogue of an Important Collection of Paintings, Marbles, and Bronzes, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, New York, January 15–February 16, 1924
The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, January 16–February 15, 1926
Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, April 1930
Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, February 21–March 22, 1934
The 1913 Armory Show in Retrospect, Amherst College, Massachusetts, February 17–March 17, 1958
1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, New York, February 17–March 31, 1963
Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland, September 1–October 6, 1976; University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas, October 17–November 21, 1976; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, December 1–January 2, 1977; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, January 14–February 20, 1977; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, March 1–April 15, 1977
The Shock of Modernism in American: The Eight and Artists of the Armory Show, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 29–July 29, 1984
Literature
An Important Collection of Paintings and Bronzes by Modern Masters of American and European Art (New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1922), n.p.
Illustrated Catalogue of an Important Collection of Paintings, Marbles, and Bronzes (New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1924), no. 11 or 12.
Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art (Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1930).
Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1934), 17, no. 133.
Hedley Howell Rhys, “Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style,” (PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1952), 155.
Frank Trapp, The 1913 Armory Show in Retrospect (Amherst, MA: Amherst College, 1958), 28, no. 44.
1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963 (Utica: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963), 122, 200.
Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show (New York: Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963) [1988 reprint], 303, no. 893.
Ian Dunlop, The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art (New York: American Heritage Press, 1972), 183.
Eleanor Green et al., Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color (College Park: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1976), 65, 138–39, 143.
Cecily Langdale, Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast in the Terra Museum of American Art (Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art, 1984), 17.
Constance Schwartz, The Shock of Modernism in America: The Eight and Artists of the Armory Show (Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1984), 31, no. 42.
Carol Clark et al., Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990), 328, fig. 504.
Annette Blaugrund, Charting New Waters: Redefining Marine Painting: Masterworks from the Burrichter/Kierlin Collection (Winona: Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2013), 58–59, 109–10, fig. 21.
Note
Maurice Prendergast painted three works titled Crepuscule, one of which he exhibited in the famed Armory Show of 1913; however, it is not certain which one. A passage in Charting New Waters: Redefining Marine Painting; Masterworks from the Burrichter/Kierlin Collection contends that this painting “represents one of the finest examples of his mature work.”[1]
Describing this painting, scholar Constance Schwartz notes that “the paint is applied in a consciously deliberate style of pointillism embodying the influence of Paul Signac and the Nabis who were to be later included in the Armory Show. However, the application is pure Prendergast. Dabs of color become so large that they seem to be parts of a flat, colorful mosaic pattern, each sophisticated shade and hue seeming to enhance the total harmony of the picture plane.”[2]
[1] Annette Blaugrund, Charting New Waters: Redefining Marine Painting; Masterworks from the Burrichter/Kierlin Collection (Winona: Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2013), 58.
[2] Constance Schwartz, The Shock of Modernism in America: The Eight and Artists of the Armory Show (Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1984), 31.
Related Work
Crepuscule, ca. 1907–10, oil on panel, 14 1/2x 17 5/8 inches; Location unknown
Crepuscule, ca. 1915–17, oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches; Location unknown
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