1883 Pansies and Books and Birthday Wishes Trompe l’Oeil Oil on Board special basket which are just nice sculptural

which are just nice sculptural objects to have sitting around (I personally am reluctant to try to take them apart

but everything about it suggests his work to me--in which case I am selling it as quite a bargain price

And happily

His head measures 2" across

1883 Pansies and Books and Birthday Wishes Trompe l’Oeil Oil on Board special basket which are just nice sculpturalIve been drawn like a magnet lately to paintings with solid black grounds so satisfyingly graphic, and amplifying the sense of significance and symbolic weight to the subjects portrayed. And I love any sort of troupe loeil, especially with books in it! This one appears to have been painted as a present, marking the occasion of the recipients birthday on an April 8. 1883. Curiously, the painted text on that page of the book seems first to have read