Seascape–St. Mâlo

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Prendergast painted Seascape—St. Malo during a trip to France in the summer of 1907. To the left, the tomb of the romantic writer François-René de Chateaubriand looms over a curved shoreline and crowds of beachgoers sheltered by bright umbrellas. This painting was probably shown at a groundbreaking exhibition, held at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908, featuring work by a group of artists known as the Eight. A reviewer for the New York Sun recognized Prendergast's fusion of medieval and modern artistic references: "Prendergast . . . is really a Neo-Impressionist. He employs the [paint]according to the new men of the Independent Salons. His little panels are cunning mosaics, flowerlike arabesques, delightfully decorative."

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