?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
VASILY FOMICHEV (1908-?) [THE ISRAELI FROG TRAVELER.] Gouache maquette. 35 1/4x23 inches, 89 1/2x58 1/2 cm. Condition B / B+: reinforcement banner on verso along repaired tears at top; tear in upper right corner; scratches, creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image; writing in pencil in lower right corner. A visual pun on the Russian fairy fale, "Frog Traveler," by V.M. Garshin, in which a boastful frog is hauled off on a stick carried by two ducks.
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