Nancy Mowll Mathews — Maurice Prendergast

Munich, Prestel, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of Nancy Mowll Mathews's study of the American Post-Impressionist artist Maurice Prendergast. This monograph provides a coherent and fascinating introduction to Prendergast's works, ideas, and affiliations, creating a complex portrait of the artist. The work charts Prendergast's evolving style, from his early Impressionist street and beach scenes, through his paintings in watercolour, his middle phase experimenting with pointillism, his open brushwork, and finally his colourful and 'flattened' figural painting. As the former 'Prendergast Curator' at the Williams College Museum of Art, Nancy Mowll Mathews is an authoritative voice on the life and works of the artist. The notable Czech-American art historian, curator, and author here demonstrates her wealth of knowledge on particular paintings, interweaving such information with the intriguing life story of Prendergast. Complete with the publisher's original unclipped dustwrapper. Collated, complete with one hundred and thirty full-colour and forty monochromatic illustrations. This copy includes a detached booklet of publisher's advertisements, loosely inserted. In a cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, lovely. Slightly bumped to tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Small ink mark to fore edge, page 41, not affecting text. Dustwrapper, excellent. Very slightly bumped to extremities. Small closed tear to rear of joint to rear flyleaf. Loosely inserted booklet of publisher's advertisments. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.