Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858 – 1924) Beach at St. Malo ca. 1907 Oil on canvas, 36.8 x 44.5 cm Carmen Thyssen Collection • #Repost @paintings_i_love № 3205 Prendergast, who enjoyed swimming, depicted the seashore in countless paintings from Revere Beach or Gloucester in Massachusetts to St. Malo in France. Prendergast loved the sea, and at times, as he was attempting a water cure to alleviate his deafness, his pleasure in bathing took on an almost hedonistic quality. "To take off one's clothes and lay full stretched on the sand exposed to the wind and the sun is the finest sensation I know on a spring day. Even in cold days in March one little realizes the penetrating force of the sun on the body." Although Prendergast had visited St. Malo during his 1891-1894 stay in Paris and also in 1914, it was his two-month summer visit in 1907 that inspired most of his canvases. St. Malo, situated on the Brittany Coast, had at the time a little more than ten thousand inhabitants. Prendergast was obviously attracted by the coastal town with "its high tides and ramparts, " where he painted such landmarks as the lighthouse and Chateaubriand's Tomb, but it was the fine sandy beach with its colourful bathing tents that attracted him the most. As with the artist's earlier paintings of Revere Beach, he has assumed an elevated viewpoint looking down to the bathers on the warm sands of the resort town… • • • • • • • • #Prendergast #AmericanArt #Seascape #impressionisme #impressionistpainting #artforeveryone #art #fineartpainting #paintingoftheday #peinture # #arthistorian #peintre #malerei #americanart #americanimpressionism #americanpainting #americanpainter #postimpressionism #postimpressionismo #postimpresionismo (à Sète, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp4qaDeIEpm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Maurice Prendergast
America, 19th century
Bastille Day
1892
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Maurice Prendergast - Umbrellas in the Rain (1899)
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Title: Charles Street, Boston
Artist: Maurice Prendergast
Date: 1895
Style: Impressionism
Genre: Cityscape
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Max Jones | © Cliodhna Prendergast | Financial Times
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Maurice Pendergast, Charles Street, Boston, 1895
Childe Hassam, Charles River and Beacon Hill, 1890-1892
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Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858-1924), Campo della Salute, Venice, 1899. Watercolor on paper, 15 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.
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Revere Beach, c. 1896-97. Maurice Brazil Prendergast,1858–1924. Watercolor and pencil on paper.
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Bright blue robin eggs in a cup shaped nest
COURTESY LAUREEN PRENDERGAST
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Have y’all seen Saint Napoleon?
He’s apparently the Patron Saint of warriors
Anon., St Napoléon: Le Patron des guerriers, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale
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Aggie as a Wolfwalker: Body Colors
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