Auction: Sale #2056 - 2056Location: BoltonDate / Time: February 25, 2001 10:00AM
Description:
Painted Wood and Metal "Flying Fish" Whirligig, America, c. 1940, painted blue-green with glass marble eyes and cut-out sheet metal fins and teeth, tall stand, (weathered surface, missing eye),ht. 6, lg. 25, dp. 11 in. Provenance: Raymond Saroff/Howard Rose collection, Aarne Anton/American Primitive Gallery. Exhibitions: "The Fine Art of American Folk," The Edith C. Blum Institute, Bard College, 1990.
Estimate $1,300-1,700