Feb 16, 2023 - Sale 2626

Sale 2626 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ALBERT GOLD (1916-2006)


Banana Boat.
Watercolor on paper. Signed, Albert Gold, upper left. 590x432 mm; 23 1/4x17 inches.

Albert Gold exhibited his work in the 1939 New York World's Fair. When World War II broke out he enlisted in the Army Corps of Engineers and served as one of a handful of combat artists.

Gold's works are in the collections of: The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Philadelphia Art Museum, (Atwater Kent collection), Philadelphia, PA; and others.