MILFORD, CONN. — Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers hosted its spring fine art auction on April 27, featuring 139 lots that included numerous examples of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. Modern and contemporary art headlined the auction, with a rare beach scene in Boston, circa 1907-10, by American Post-Impressionist Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924) topping the sale with a $162,500 final price, inclusive of buyer’s premium. The busy scene depicts women and children walking along the esplanade. The work is painted in Prendergast’s typical style, with broad brush strokes. Catalog notes point out that the artist’s work in both watercolor and oil bridges the styles of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. “[Prendergast] pushed through a late American Impressionism and an Ashcan-influenced urbanism to a highly modern view,” they state. “His late work incorporated elements of the fantastical, but the heart of his career, from the early 1900s to the teens, was marked by his unique surface patterning of patches of brilliant color.” More highlights from this sale will appear in an upcoming issue.