Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2494Location: BostonDate / Time: March 07, 2010 11:00AM
Description:
Jonathan Orne Johnson "J.O.J." Frost (Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1852-1928)
Going Aboard with a Load of Fish, Rolling Sharks, and Stealing Fish Out of a Dory. Unsigned, title taken from an exhibition catalogue from the artist's first large-scale showing of his work. Watercolor base paint on board, 16 x 20 in., in a later molded wood frame. Condition: Very good.
Provenance: Parke-Bernet Galleries, April 8, 1971, Sale # 3186, Lot 27, from the Betty and Albert L. Carpenter Collection, the auction catalogue accompanies the lot.
Estimate $15,000-25,000