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hi folks

this was something i bought on ebay this week, cost £20

i really like it and would be happy to hang it

artist appears to be unknown, and researched that before bidding

the back is a bit of a car crash, but tried to look beyond that

any thoughts or comments appreciated

 

A fun piece, done by an experienced hand.
The frame looks 1960s-70s?
Is that phone number French or British? Knowing that could help date it. The 8 is a British 8, but if Phelps wrote it himself, it would be.

@kyratango , if that is a French phone number, could you date it?

 

Charlie, haven't we seen this before?

Debora

 

awesome, i thought so too Aj, flows well doesn't it

the guys in the foreground are done well with the simplest of broad strokes

 

yeah but not as a separate post, that was someone else's pictures, added to a different thread so not everyone would have seen it

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/little-girl-costume-oil.72957/page-2#post-7364844

 

I think 60's too.'Can Can' by Phelps.There's some very nice original art on Ebay by lesser/unknown artists-stuff I'd be damned happy to hang.
The artist was probably hawking his paintings in Montmarte,perhaps on the boulevard or in a few galleries.

 

That felt tip marker makes me think it might be a bit later than it looks.

Debora

 

doesn't seem much age to the pine wood on the back either deb, wonder what the upside down 11 on it suggests

 

Upside down 11? Do you mean like this 11? Or like this 11?

Debora

 

This upside down 11

 

Either the frames been reset at some time, or its been taken from another painting frame

 

Not french number!

 

Is the 11 the size of the stretcher perhaps? What makes you think the frame has been reset?

Address is a line of rowhouses in London.

Given the lack of age on the canvas/stretchers, but the little bit of aging on the staples and the style of offsets, I'd say 70s is a good bet.

 

Ah could be, just wondered why it was upside down

 

Ah okay. These stretcher bars were/are sold in art stores as individual lengths so you can slot them together to make your own canvas sizes. We definitely can see that he stretched this canvas himself as well. So the 11 would have been the in-store stamp to indicate size for purchase.

 

Artist should certainly be in an old London phone book if someone has access. They're online with some ancestry.com memberships, for instance.

Debora

 

Oopssss, I thought it said Paris, but now I see it says Park.
Sorry to have bothered you.

 

You didn’t bother me, never!!!
I was in a critical part of a kyratisation, involving MANY gross words and needed just a little break before going back to it

 

Wishing you lots of luck with your kyratisation, and lots of swearing for good measure. I'm sure the result will be as beautiful as ever.

 

A new term for the Oxford Unabridged 'Kyratisation'-'The phenomena by which even the most offensive object is transmogrified into something of beauty'.