Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574

Sale 2574 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BRIAN FROUD (1947- )
"One day I saw a large bunch of twigs . . . bound in cobwebs and hanging by a thin thread." Double panel illustration, Plate number 12, published in The Land of Froud, edited by David Larkin (New York: Peacock Press/Bantam Books, 1977). Watercolor, gouache, and ink on board. 580x398 mm; 23x15 3/4 inches (measurement panels together), on 25x18-inch watercolor board. Signed "Brian Froud `76" in lower left of main image. Matted and archivally framed.

Provenance: The artist to collector and publisher of Ballantyne Books, Betty Ballantine, thence by her estate to private collection, New York.