SOLD (SA) Victorian Oil on Linen Portrait of Black and White Spaniel, 1882 James Bone collage James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

There is one very very tiny chip around the lip of the platter

This wonderful cyanotype does invite filling in a backstory

The objective is to remove every marble except one by jumping over orthogonally (not diagonally) from one adjacent point to the vacant adjacent point on the other side

I think it is both wonderfully specific and transcendentally good

SOLD (SA) Victorian Oil on Linen Portrait of Black and White Spaniel, 1882 James Bone collage James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)This is, hands down, a wonderful painting. The sort of painting that makes me think of a luxurious, richly decorated room, old leather and wood everywhere, walls perhaps painted a deep burgundy and hung with dozens of antique dog portraits in gilded frames. But even amid many, I do think this painting, elegantly and dexterously capturing one handsome, highly prized, regal but gentle looking Spaniel (I think), would surely be my favorite! Oil on linen,