Vintage Folk Art Still Life Painting with Meat-like Melon Slices Signed J. Colville italian painting likely referring to Alt's class

likely referring to Alt's class in school

And it appears that the long rectangle of vertical lines carved into the top were scratched quite a lot

Dimensions: 27" l x 14" t

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Vintage Folk Art Still Life Painting with Meat-like Melon Slices Signed J. Colville italian painting likely referring to Alt's classThis is not a great painting, but I love it in very large part because of that meat like melon (with those very pork chop looking slices) which gives the whole thing a Cham Soutine sort of flavor in addition to lending it a certain eroticism! I also love the immediacy with which its maker kept right on going to paint the frame in the same palette. A perfect one for hanging amid a salon style wall of still life paintings, I'd say. 16 5 8" x 13 1 2" x