Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting ready made Light wood slider: 8"x 4

Light wood slider: 8"x 4 5/8" x 3 1/8"

an old center fold

A little paint loss around the edges and sides as pictured

I think its just terrific

feeling both very modern and timeless

Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting ready made Light wood slider: 8"x 4To 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