Muscle Man, Coq Pose, Excellent Antique RPPC gifts sign lined with newspaper dating it

lined with newspaper dating it to c

with masking taped edges matching the darker edges of the drawing

It is a bit hard to know where one layer of papering ends and another begins--it looks to me like the paper showing on the bottom half came after the (very lovely) hand-printed wallpaper on the top and sides--based on visible layering of the two in a few spots

which feels to me like the very essence/icon of kaleidoscope

though perhaps a female santo

Muscle Man, Coq Pose, Excellent Antique RPPC gifts sign lined with newspaper dating itQuite a looker, and quite a mustache! I'm not sure I ever drew the connection between strong man wrestler postures and those of roosters, but this sure brings that home; cock a doodle doo! And really excellent framing here I think, the oval mask making him feel all the more like a object specimen being closely inspected, as if through a scope, while the public setting makeshift looking wall behind him, view of park tables and chairs to the right gives