Outdoor Cafe Scene

1900/1905

Maurice Prendergast

Associated Names
Maurice Prendergast

Artist, American, 1858 - 1924

The image displays swirling lines and patches of color that form an abstract representation. The artwork conveys motion and energy, resembling a busy café or social gathering. The blurred forms suggest people seated around tables, with circular shapes resembling hats or trays, and vertical strokes symbolizing figures sat upright.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    monotype

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.1403

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Clark et al. 1990, no. 1714

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Prendergast, 1924; Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon Brooks, by 1948?; (Peter Deitsch and Kraushaar, New York), by 1963; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown; gift to NGA, 1964

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Dedicatory Art Exhibition for the William Cooper Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1965, no. 41.

Bibliography

1979

  • The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast, New York, 1979: 101.

1990

  • Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast and Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990, p. 618, no. 1714.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: Prendergast; lower right in yellow crayon by unknown hand: MBP

Wikidata ID

Q65511326

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