Maurice Prendergast's universeBright watercolors, mosaic silhouettes and leisure scenes make Maurice Prendergast one of the most unique colorists of American modernism.
1858 - 1924Life and career
Boston, Paris, Venice, New York, parks and beaches on the East CoastMain homes
American post-impressionism, watercolor, monotype, oil, landscape, crowd, leisure, mosaic touch and decorative colorPractical
3,000 °CPaintings, watercolors, monotypes, drawings, studies, landscapes, leisure scenes and lost works created, overall estimate
Hand paintedReal oil painting, no print.
Formats of your choiceA composition adapted to the dimensions ordered.
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1858 -1924 · Boston, Paris, Venice and American post-impressionism
Bright watercolors, mosaic silhouettes and leisure scenes make Maurice Prendergast one of the most unique colorists of American modernism.
Maurice Prendergast was born in 1858 in Saint John, Newfoundland and grew up in Boston, where his family settled in 1868. After working in poster design and commercial decoration, he moved to Paris in 1891. He studied at the Colarossi and Julian academies, discovered the research of Cézanne, Vuillard, Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec, then developed a way free from academic naturalism. His watercolors and monotypes transformed parks, beaches, walks and urban crowds into networks of short touches, firm contours and juxtaposed colors. During a stay in Italy in 1898 -1899, Venice offered him an ideal theater: facades, water, processions and silhouettes responded to each other like the tesserae of a mosaic. Back in the United States, Prendergast became an independent figure of modernity. He exhibited with The Eight in 1908, while remaining distinct from the dark realism of the Ashcan School, and participated in the organization of the Armory Show of 1913. Installed in New York in 1914 with his brother Charles, he continued landscapes and scenes of leisure in a denser material, nourished by Cézanne, Matisse and Fauvism. Park landscapes and beach scenes show its privileged subject: a modern society observed as a decorative rhythm where figures, trees, water and sky share the same colorful vibration. The "Maurice Prendergast" selection notably compares Landscape (park scene) and Landscape (beach scene). His reading favors figures.
At Maurice Prendergast, the crowd does not dissolve: each silhouette becomes a note of color in the music of a park, a beach or a walk.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Paris and birth of a modern language
Free academies, Nabis and poster art free color, contour and surface. This milestone illuminates the "Maurice Prendergast" collection by favoring figures.
Venice, monotype and crowd scenes
Water, architecture and walkers become a luminous network of juxtaposed keys.
The Eight, Armory Show and New York
An independent modernity brings the colorful mosaic of Cézanne and Fauvism closer.
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Mosaic key
Small colored marks bring together figures, trees and reflections without smoothing the surface. This line guides a reading of "Maurice Prendergast" centered on the figures.
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Rhythmic crowd
Walkers and bathers are distributed like accents in a musical composition.
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Firm outline
A dark line stabilizes the silhouettes amid the vibration of colors.
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Modern leisure
Park, beach and promenade become the privileged scenes of a peaceful collective life.
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Six readings specific to Maurice Prendergast
Works, visual language and historical landmarks make up a journey exclusively devoted to Maurice Prendergast.
Park and modernity01
Landscape (park scene)
Figures, trees and lawn come together in a surface animated by touches and colors.
Landmark work by Maurice Prendergast. Reading of "Maurice Prendergast" through the figures.Coastal light02
Landscape (beach scene)
Bathers, sand and water make up a decorative panorama crossed by summer light.
Landmark work by Maurice PrendergastColorful walk03
Park scene
The spaced silhouettes punctuate the landscape like clear notes between shadow and foliage.
Landmark work by Maurice PrendergastMosaic crowd04
Beach scene
Parasols, clothing and shoreline form a living mosaic where color organizes the crowd.
Landmark work by Maurice PrendergastStyle05
Mosaic key
Small colored marks bring together figures, trees and reflections without smoothing the surface. This line guides a reading of "Maurice Prendergast" centered on the figures.
Reading key for Maurice PrendergastStyle06
Rhythmic crowd
Walkers and bathers are distributed like accents in a musical composition.
Reading key for Maurice Prendergast
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