Mixed Media Antique Folk Art Sandpaper Painting of Gentleman funny present and future

present and future

in great condition

I have really fallen in love with this piece

and candelabra most of all

likely 1900s-20s

Mixed Media Antique Folk Art Sandpaper Painting of Gentleman funny present and futureI 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