Watercolor, pencil and pastel on paper, c.1910-1913, signed 'Prendergast' lower right. Catalogue raisonné number 1136. 14 x 20 in. (sheet), 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (frame).Exhibited: Williams College Museum of Art, Maurice Prendergast, Oct. 6 - Dec. 12, 1990; Whitney Museum of American Art, June 1 - Sept 2, 1990; LACMA, Feb 24 - Apr 21, 1991; Phillips, May 18 - Aug 25, 1991.Note: From 1912 to 1915, Maurice and his brother, Charles, shared a studio in New York City where they worked side-by-side. In a departure from the more traditional genre of landscape painting, they explored primitive and naïve imagery and the world of the antique". Evoking an idealized world, Sea Maidens is an example of the type of imagery they chose to paint during this period.Provenance: The artist; Charles Prendergast; Mrs. Charles Prendergast."