Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A nude woman with red hair, 1895–97, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor, 14 1/8 x 11 3/16 in. (35.8 x 28.4 cm), Drawings, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), This half-length study of a nude woman is unique in Prendergast’s Boston work of the 1890s. Overtly sexual, the red-headed woman recalls sirens in the artist’s sketches of men’s smoking fantasies for J
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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook, nude woman, red hair, 1895–97, Recto, watercolor, pencil, bordered, 14 1/8 x 11 3/16, 35.8 28.4 cm, Drawings, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1858–1924, New York, half-length, study, unique, Prendergast, Boston, work, 1890s, Overtly sexual, red-headed, recalls, sirens, artist, sketches, men, smoking, fantasies, J
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