Mixed Media Antique Folk Art Sandpaper Painting of Gentleman funny Or perhaps it was used

Or perhaps it was used for storing tobacco

hunting for things

present and future

likely 1900s-20s

and some staining to the horsehair bristles

Mixed Media Antique Folk Art Sandpaper Painting of Gentleman funny Or perhaps it was usedI took a chance on this one, which I purchased online from a seller who did not know anything about it I was just immediately taken with the evocativeness of the portrait, which immediately reminded me of the powerful portraits of South African born, Amsterdam based contemporary artist Marlene Dumas. I should have guessed, as is the case, that the softness and mystery of it is due to the fact that it is a sandpaper painting a technique popular in the