SOLD Boa Having Eaten an Antelope, With Excellent Sleuthy Shadow, Earlyish 20th C. French Photograph father's day card and the angled top

and the angled top

he remains an eager puppy

It takes a very close view to fully appreciate some of the details on this one

I just really fell in love with that carved hand gripping balanced scale

Hayter’s Atelier 17

SOLD Boa Having Eaten an Antelope, With Excellent Sleuthy Shadow, Earlyish 20th C. French Photograph father's day card and the angled topThe sight of a boa having just consumed an antelope is indeed quite a phenomenal one, and the form of the snake's very long body here, large bulge at the center, just formally quite extraordinary. But for me it is the presence of the shadow at lower right, of man in hat looking rather like an inspector and coming in on the diagonal that really completes it for me. Plus that second shadow, a sort of mysterious near horizontal line at lower left, and