Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting pottery bowls At any rate

At any rate

I have seen pieces of this ilk described as "mixed metal"--I think it is likely lead/pewter

Earlyishg 20th century I would guess

the absence of which to me at least makes it's gestures feel rather more poignant

and would like to think sculpture pays homage to a favorite

Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting pottery bowls At any rateTo me, there is something so right about this elusive portrait, painted by an artist unknown to me, but which I know dates to the 1960s or so. Thinly painted on what I believe is an unprimed linen panel board, it seems to me both about the materiality and constructed illusory nature of painting itself and also about the subject himself, doubly veiled in a sense by the painter's treatment, and by his great beard! Hovering in a sort of liminal space, it