Basket of Strawberries Painting on Tin in Grain Painted Frame Yves Robitaille but while the burners glee

but while the burners glee into the ashes

oil on what looks like early masonite to me

and have been keeping an eye out ever since

with compartments underneath the velvet covered writing slope in which one might keep writing paper as well as tuck a stack of correspondence received

with the cream of the board showing stains here and there

Basket of Strawberries Painting on Tin in Grain Painted Frame Yves Robitaille but while the burners gleeSummer may be nearly over, but dreams of a basket of freshly picked strawberries never cease, and I love the super graphic pop of this painting. It was done on tin, painted on very smooth, flat black the ground. The subject and manner of the painting, and the frame in which it appears to have lived for quite some time, make me think late 19th c., though in remarkably good condition, with just a very little bit of craquelure and light surface