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Mother & Child Reverse Painting on Glass
Ref: 4729
Something bold and especially appealing about this example of a Transylvanian reverse painting on glass, perhaps it is the slightly larger than normal scale, or the blue ground colour with pink roses and the overall free and joyful colour expression.
The untrained peasant artist who made this in a cottage factory in the early 20th century had no doubt never heard of le Bateau Lavois & no doubt had never seen an African tribal mask but the pictorial innovation of abbreviating facial features in both flat & in profile simultaneously they share with Pablo Picasso who was creating the “shock of the new” by doing this in his Demoiselles around the same time.
Central/Eastern Europe c.1900
H: 48cm (18.9in)
W: 36cm (14.2in)
D: 2cm (0.8in)
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