Nov 15, 2010 - Sale 2230

Sale 2230 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
F. ROBERTS JOHNSON (DATES UNKNOWN) LONDON'S TRAMWAYS / ST. JAMES PARK. 1931.
29 3/4x19 7/8 inches, 75 1/2x51 cm. Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London.
Condition B+: pinholes in corners; creasing in wide margins; pencil number in lower left corner.
"The Bird most closely associated with St. James's Park is the pelican, so it is surprising that this attractive modernist image by Johnson shows just a duck swimming through the water" (Tramway p. 24).