1931 Ink and Watercolor Seascape with Ships Signed C. Friburgh fabric covered book with wear and some dryness/light

with wear and some dryness/light cracking to the wood (which I have not touched)

But I'm listing it at the lowest price I see out there anywhere (excepting for ones broken into multiple pieces

and I've looked at a fair number and sold a number of them

I view them as readymade painterly sculptures

1931 Ink and Watercolor Seascape with Ships Signed C. Friburgh fabric covered book with wear and some dryness/lightI have not been able to identify the C. Friburgh who signed this watercolor, which surprises me some, as it is very finely done. Photos don't give a great sense of the richness of the sea itself, which was painted with hundreds of fine brushstrokes in a range of blues and greens, which make it feel as if we're out in very deep waters witnessing the scene. And then these wispy white clouds popping against the tan board, which it feels as if the sails