Dressed to impress
Textile and gouache painting.
Gouache and silk on paper, 280 x 216 mm. Housed in 355 x 290 mm frame.
€ 4,500.00
A charming original work which combines textile art with a painted scene. The painting shows a seated man in traditional dress, possibly that of West Asia (bearing some similarity to Kazakh, Kyrgyz or Kalmyk styles). The seated man's clothing is fully formed from carefully folded yellow and green silk, creating a collage effect. The painting's initial place of creation is unknown, but it was framed in France in the 1890s, where late 19th and early 20th century interest in Asian decorative art and clothing was at a height. The seated figure's carefully painted beard and wide-eyed gaze appear to look out at the viewer, and his artfully rumpled clothing give the whole a three-dimensional effect.
Light soiling to extremities; not examined out of frame.
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