Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 236

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
FREDERICK RICHARDSON.
"The Three Pigs." Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper. 340x260 mm; 13 1/4x10 1/4 inches, matte size. Tape residue on right corners, short crease lower left corner. Unsigned, penciled title caption in right margin.

Additional Details

Possibly an unused illustration for Old Old Tales Retold, Chicago: P. F. Volland Co., 1923. Richardson was a cartoonist with the Chicago Daily News and taught at the Chicago Art Institute. His most famous books were Queen Zixi of Ix (1905) by L. Frank Baum, Frank Stockton's The Queen's Museum (1906) and The Volland Mother Goose (1915).