SOLD Boa Having Eaten an Antelope, With Excellent Sleuthy Shadow, Earlyish 20th C. French Photograph vintage blanket And then St

And then St

so densely packed with letters pointing forward and backward in an arrangement that occasionally follows alphabetic logic but more often veers away from it

3 1/4" t x 3 5/8" across at handle

Note included

It appears that the painting was cutout and glued onto a backing

SOLD Boa Having Eaten an Antelope, With Excellent Sleuthy Shadow, Earlyish 20th C. French Photograph vintage blanket And then StThe sight of a boa having just consumed an antelope is indeed quite a phenomenal one, and the form of the snake's very long body here, large bulge at the center, just formally quite extraordinary. But for me it is the presence of the shadow at lower right, of man in hat looking rather like an inspector and coming in on the diagonal that really completes it for me. Plus that second shadow, a sort of mysterious near horizontal line at lower left, and