New Beginnings
Lot 27:
Description
This mid-20th century oil painting on canvas depicts a young woman with long dark hair wearing a white headband, appearing to cradle a small doll or figure. The work is executed in a stylized, illustrative manner characteristic of mid-century popular art, featuring fluid brushwork with notable impasto highlights on the headband and shoulder against a dark, tonal background with atmospheric green and yellow accents. No signature is clearly legible on the face of the work; while yellow and green marks are present in the lower right corner, they do not form discernible characters. The painting is housed in an ornate carved wooden frame with a distressed cream finish and green-toned foliate ornaments at the corners and midpoints. The verso shows the natural canvas support on a wooden stretcher with no gallery or exhibition labels; a single handwritten 5 is present on the lower frame member.
Sight 16 X 20 in.
Frame 24.5 X 28.5 X 2 in.
Condition report:
The painting displays fine craquelure on the headband and minor surface dirt. There is slight paint loss at the inner frame edges.
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