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

A few chips around the base and to the (excellent) hair

the corrected swap of "Adam to Saul" and "Twelve Apostles") and these rows of gold and pink stickers (the crescent moons on their sides and crosses most of all) just satisfies my soul

with a path between them leading through a mountainous landscape

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