Two Figures on a Mule

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

The younger brother of the post-impressionist painter Maurice Prendergast, Charles Prendergast was an artist-craftsman who began making panels in a medieval style and technique in 1912. He used tempera and gold leaf on a ground covered in gesso, rendering his figures with incised lines. This whimsical, fantastical landscape containing people, an angel, quadrupeds, fish, and multicolored trees and hills draws from medieval European, Byzantine, Chinese, Egyptian, and Persian art.

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