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This may be my favorite old hand-drawn postcard yet
Great red comb and yellow beak and polka dotted legs too
measures 14” x 10”
) rising from the opening of the shoe
15” tall (when arrow is straight horizontal) x 18” wide x 7” deep (at base)
1883 Pansies and Books and Birthday Wishes Trompe l’Oeil Oil on Board Paul Valery This may be my favoriteIve 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
