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THE PORCH WITH THE OLD MOSAICS, ST. MARKS, VENICE

measurements
16 by 11 1/4 in.

alternate measurements
(40.7 by 28.6 cm)

signed twice Prendergast and inscribed Venice, l.l.

watercolor and pencil on paper

Executed circa 1898-99.

PROVENANCE

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sutro
John E. Parkerson, Houston, Texas
Prentis B. Tomlinson, 1984
Lane Fine Arts, London, England
The Transco Energy Company, Houston, Texas (sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1992, lot 42, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

EXHIBITED

San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (and travelling), Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924, 1961
Santa Barbara, California, Museum of Art, Painted Paper: Watercolors from Dürer to Present, March 15-April 15, 1962, no. 161
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, The Remembered Image: Prendergast Watercolors 1896-1906, 1986, no. 7
Denver, Colorado, The Denver Art Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Fort Worth, Texas, The Amon Carter Museum; Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Baltimore, Maryland, Walters Art Gallery; Tokyo, Japan, The Shoto Museum of Art (and travelling), Contemplating the American Watercolor: Selections from the Transco Energy Company Collection, Houston, Texas, May 1985-April 1992, pl. 33, illustrated

LITERATURE

Carol Clarke, Nancy Mowll Matthews, Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast and Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 679, p. 375 illustrated