Internet, I hope you can help a sister out on this one.
Richard received this piece of art that belonged to his Aunt Amanda after her death several years ago. He doesn’t know where it came from or who made it; he just selected it because he liked how it looks. There’s no identifying information on the back, and Richard’s mom has even asked a close friend of Amanda’s to see if she knew more about it. She doesn’t.
I did a reverse Google image search of a photo of the piece and ran it through Google lens to see if it pulled up anything similar, and came up with nothing! But the style of the face feels so familiar to me. And this is almost like a modern and sort of grotesque twist on that familiar style — the strange way the flowers almost look like monstrous mouths. The blue one completely obscures her eye. The jewel tones just blaze in contrast to the porcelain pastel of her face. I want to know more! Is this folk art or a mass-market product based on a classic?
If you’re an art nut or know folks who might be able to lead me in the right direction, I’d love your help!
Some details: The piece is made of glass. It measures about 16 inches wide by 13 inches tall, and is a bit over a quarter inch thick. The back is lined with velour. It’s fairly heavy, as you might imagine, since it’s glass.
Please comment here or email me at theogeo [at] gmail if you have any ideas on how I could track this down, or if it’s completely obvious to you because’s it’s an image on the front of everyone’s eighth grade art textbook. I JUST NEED TO KNOW!!!
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