Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame inuit bird ) For me the all

) For me the all over craquelure makes this lovely young woman feel extra moody and the image all the more an object-- hovering in between the worlds of past and present

capturing Venus in all of her grace

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Perfect matte gray paint

Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame inuit bird ) For me the allI don't very often go for a tinsel painting, often a bit too garish for me though their existence as an artform makes me really happy but I was all in at first sight with this one, found in New Hampshire, with the watermelon perched on top, and that knife floating above it as if levitating, really doing it for me! Terrific down to every detail I think , from the bright yellow footed bowl with red painted details (all the painting is reverse glass