A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine the carcass with good patina

the carcass with good patina to the original painted surfaces having been used in an educational or place of work setting

Excerpted from an 1885 essay

1794 when Robespierre was removed from power and executed

all stockings had to be made by hand knitting using two needles

The style of this work is not dissimilar to the sculptures of Georg Ehrlich [1897-1966] who worked a lot in England and we wonder if he had been an influence on our artist

A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine the carcass with good patinaOrigin: French Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 60 Heights: 7, 10, 10, 14 Diameters: 8, 8, 8, 16 The wonderfully fun stylised and over sized hand painted composition stone models of fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria) each in the distinctive scarlet red and white colourway with white spots, having ribbed bodies, each freestanding, surviving from the middle section of twentieth century France. Remaining in good overall condition,