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b. 1868 - d. 1947

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  • Finn Haakon Frolich (Norwegian-American 1868-1947), Jack London, 1913, Artist Carved Patinated Plaster Model, Mold, and Cast Bronze Plaque
    Mar. 28, 2025

    Finn Haakon Frolich (Norwegian-American 1868-1947), Jack London, 1913, Artist Carved Patinated Plaster Model, Mold, and Cast Bronze Plaque

    Est: $2,000 - $4,000

    Finn Haakon Frolich (Norwegian-American, 1868-1947) Jack London, 1913 Artist carved patinated plaster model, mold, and cast bronze plaque Titled JACK LONDON in-relief, descending down left border with incised artist signature FHFrolich, location Glen Ellen, and date 1913 to lower right of recto. Provenance: Gift from the Artist to Irving Shepard (1899-1975) Family Descent Gift to Katherine Mather Littell Jr. (1936-2003) Gift to Family of Present Owner Notes: An adventurer at heart, Finn Haakon Frolich would leave home, Oslo at nine to sail the seas and would delay his nomadic life at eighteen to study under Daniel Chester French. Although not entirely, nine years later he would be dispatched to Paris to study under Augustus St. Gaudens, with additional sojourns to South Africa, modelling President Kruger and a tribal princess. After returning to New York and contributing further to French, Roland Perry, Alexander Proctor's projects in New York, Paris, and St. Louis - in desperation following a failed marriage and fewer opportunities Frolich went as far as he could on a whim and woke up in Seattle. He seemed to benefit from the change and would prolifically generate works, not least the ‘Spirit of the Pacific' for which he would be honored with directorship of sculpture for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909, in addition to other Beaux Arts monuments and privately sponsored portraits. Once again, indebted and with a personal life in shambles, Frolich would flee south to California where he would ultimately stay; herein where the legendary man of letters Jack London would enter the fold. Running in similar circles, Frolich would find a kindred-spirit in London, being fellow adventurers, and share a mutually happy friendship, living together when he was perhaps his most vulnerable. For all his faults and despite his troubled domestic life, Frolich would stay in California, and would do much to personally train, encourage and steward the new and upcoming community of artists there - he would always be known for his outgoing and effervescent personality. Property from the Estate of Katherine Littell

    Weschler's
  • Art Nouveau Female Bronze Bust, "Lalou," with
    Sep. 13, 2008

    Art Nouveau Female Bronze Bust, "Lalou," with

    Est: $1,000 - $2,000

    Art Nouveau Female Bronze Bust, "Lalou," with "Copyright / 98/ F. H. Frolich" on base. A substantial piece of sculpture enjoying a glossy chocolate patina. Finn Haakon Frolich (1868 - 1947) emigrated from Norway to New York in 1890. Starting his art career as a model, he went on to study in Paris at the Ecole National and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. 24" The 40 year collection of Dr. John Wessels, Durham, NC.

    Leland Little Auctions
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