Vintage Folk Art Still Life Painting with Meat-like Melon Slices Signed J. Colville black pen drawing he makes quite a striking

he makes quite a striking silhouette when hung on the wall

and especially that image near center of the “elevator” in use

with some light cracking (but not chipping) to the yellow paint and scuff marks all over

Best may be the mushroom

Vintage Folk Art Still Life Painting with Meat-like Melon Slices Signed J. Colville black pen drawing he makes quite a strikingThis is not a great painting, but I love it in very large part because of that meat like melon (with those very pork chop looking slices) which gives the whole thing a Cham Soutine sort of flavor in addition to lending it a certain eroticism! I also love the immediacy with which its maker kept right on going to paint the frame in the same palette. A perfect one for hanging amid a salon style wall of still life paintings, I'd say. 16 5 8" x 13 1 2" x