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Folk Painted Icon on Glass
Ref: 5916
A reverse painted religious icon on glass panel and in original red grained pine frame. Made by the Romanian folk artists for the peasantry to decorate their homes, the designs were copied from serious black and white German religious prints, but transformed, where heads of saints were in a border around the central image the folk artist puts flowers. The colour combinations too are the free invention of the untrained eye.
Transylvania early 20th cent
H: 44cm (17.3in)
W: 35cm (13.8in)
D: 1cm (0.4in)
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