Beautifully Carved, Mounted Folk Art Portrait of Man with Bow Tie and Fabulous Hair handmade inlaid wood frames I'd have to guess WWI

I'd have to guess WWI on this guy

and think Magritte’s Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) was about as perfect a means of addressing the nature of representation as there’s been

but I don’t care much--just quite an evocative thing

There in one small rough spot on the exterior

The flat sky-aqua blue ground on this c

Beautifully Carved, Mounted Folk Art Portrait of Man with Bow Tie and Fabulous Hair handmade inlaid wood frames I'd have to guess WWIAll the better in person, the carving on this is really quite stunning, especially that hair!!! Politician? Banker? Business owner? Surely some sort of power broker, looking prosperous and ambitious and perhaps a little smug too in his jacket and bow tie and slightly doubled chin. A wonderful addition to a wall of portraits, I'd say, and quite a fun one to carry on an ongoing conversation with; I don't think he'd shy away from a lively debate!