An Unusual Early 20thC Hand-Painted French Theatre Backdrop c.1915-25 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage the original plate glass has

the original plate glass has some attractive areas of foxing mainly to the edges

Period: Late Edwardian

This figure was owned and used extensively by the well recognised American artist Franklin Watkins (1894-1972) and is featured in some of his paintings

which have sagittal crests comprising up to 41% of the skull's length

The Chinese frames have some scuffing and one has a small section of loss to the mouldings

An Unusual Early 20thC Hand-Painted French Theatre Backdrop c.1915-25 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage the original plate glass hasOrigin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd Republic Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1915 25Width: 34Height: 67 The large hand painted theatre canvas backdrop, executed in a Bloomsbury Group esque maximalist nave style, upon thick cream cotton twill panels, depicting an androgenous figure holding a book, seated on a large garden urn, to highly stylised swirls and patterns to the background, using hues of blues, reds and blacks, the whole hemmed to upper and lower edges,