Oil Painting on Canvas Board with Steiff Bear and Pin-up Print After Bill Layne
Item Details
A set of vintage collectibles including two pieces of artwork and a brown Steiff stuffed bear accented with a yellow ribbon. Featured is a Mitchell mid-century oil painting on canvas board depicting a smiling clown in a bowler hat; it is signed in paint to the upper right and presented without glass in a wooden frame with hanging wire to the verso. Also featured is an offset lithograph print on paper after a 1940s pin-up illustration titled Well Equipped by listed California artist Bill Layne (1911 – 2005). The image depicts a woman in a bathing suit walking along a boardwalk on her way to the beach; it is signed in plate to the lower left and titled in plate to the lower center. The print is presented under glass in a black wooden frame with a sawtooth hanger to the verso.
Condition
- to Fair; wrinkling and wear present to items; scuffing, wear, dust and scratching to frames; wear to edges of canvas board with areas of creasing and paint loss; fading to print.
Dimensions
- measures largest frame; visible image measures 9.5" W. × 13.5″ H.
Item #
17LAX232-148