Help with painting identification

Hi
Does anyone know how to identify this signature and the age of this painting?
Thanks!

 

Others will want to see pics of the back of the art and frame if you can get them.

Here's a similar painting (source-->)

 

Here it is

 

Hi. From the look of the back, I think this may have been artificially aged. The brown fabric does not appear to be a professional backing and the wood of the stretcher bars very thin and bright clean. Not sure if it was recently rebacked or not?

 

The signature reads "Simen" to my eye. But there's something about your work that makes me suspect its a decorative painting.

Debora

 

I thought Simen also but now I'm thinking Simon with possibly an initial before and possibly something after the end.

I thought decorative painting also and do think that frame seems newish but I'm not sure if the craquelure can be recreated like this. Can it? (that is an honest question because I don't know)

 

It does look old,can it be cracked like this?there is also one place where paint is missing(on the pic)i'm not sure if it was rebacked in the past,or it is just new painting that has been aged

 

Have you done a Google Image search to see if there's a duplicate floating around?

Debora

 

Yes, craquelure can be artificially produced. Eric Hebborn, in his "Art Forger's Handbook", explains one method. Having chosen materials for the ground and paint layers that would respond as desired, he simply took the unmounted painted canvas and pulled it over the edge of a table in both directions. Voila! automatic age cracks.

 

I don't know if it's an old painting recently stretched and framed..
but..
the hardware is recent....the pine slats are recent......
and
Staples......it's got Staples...

 

Wow how about that! It sort of makes me want to try it to see what it looks like. I guess you'd need some well dried varnish on the surface.

 

Interesting comments and information! Thank you all. Personally I don’t know what to think of the painting,but I like it. My uneducated guess would have been old painting and canvas that was for some reason ‘newly’ reframed or backed. Happy to be learning. Thanks again

 

Wow,that’s worrying but interesting!

 

OP, do you own the painting and/or can you inspect it? Either it's relined or just made to look old. The craquelure looks oddly consistent. I also can't see any "old" canvas on the back of the stretchers. Typically, on a relined painting the original canvas will wrap around the backs of the stretchers and over the lining.

Without seeing the painting in person I'd lean towards "newish".

 

Is that a little sticker on the bottom of the frame? And, if so, what does it read?

Debora

 

Thank you all for help.i took it to local gallery and they said it isnt much old,probably from 90's