An Unusual Early 20thC Hand-Painted French Theatre Backdrop c.1915-25 reserved There are one or two

There are one or two losses as per the photographs with one finger having a hairline and a small amount of loss

with some nicks and holes to a few areas of the kilim

And now my heart is sore

and two winding apertures

Sometimes the image is shown shining within the bosom of Christ with his wounded hands pointing at the heart

An Unusual Early 20thC Hand-Painted French Theatre Backdrop c.1915-25 reserved There are one or twoOrigin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd Republic Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1915 25Width: 34Height: 67 The large hand painted theatre canvas backdrop, executed in a Bloomsbury Group esque maximalist nave style, upon thick cream cotton twill panels, depicting an androgenous figure holding a book, seated on a large garden urn, to highly stylised swirls and patterns to the background, using hues of blues, reds and blacks, the whole hemmed to upper and lower edges,