Excellent Spatter Painted Chair grays but the interior was re-lined

but the interior was re-lined more recently in a red paper with raised velvet pattern

Though the subject seems perhaps to have been a somewhat reluctant model--eyes apparently closed

Oil on hand-cut academy board

which I think just make it look as if he's been through the snow

just minor surface wear here and there

Excellent Spatter Painted Chair grays but the interior was re-linedA relatively simple exercise, produced by cutting out a template of a chair then spattering ink around it, but with such an excellent, evocative effect I think, feeling both iconic and ghostly. Really a pretty perfect thing. Done as a school exercise I would guess, and I believe vintage rather than antique, maybe 1940s or so. 11 7 8 x 8 7 8. Black ink on construction type paper. There is a bit of toning and a fold to the bottom right edge, easily