Uncommon Old Sleeve Stretcher with Graceful Lines and Warm Patina santa watercolor with just a bit of

with just a bit of foxing in the sky of the painting

such that the windows into his soul are voided

with a path between them leading through a mountainous landscape

I love the awkward pile up of flowers in their vase

There is not much out there about Blouch except a few sales of work at auction (Garth's

Uncommon Old Sleeve Stretcher with Graceful Lines and Warm Patina santa watercolor with just a bit ofThis feels to me akin to Shaker sweater stretchers and the mitten stretchers I listed last week too; this one with a strong tension to the hinged metal strips held between gracefully arching and tapering pieces of pine, which would be inserted inside a sleeve and then released to pull it taut. And it's one that feels like a graceful three dimensional line drawing to me, and with a terrific warm, dry wood patina to the pine, too. 22 1 2" l x 10" w