Uncommon Old Sleeve Stretcher with Graceful Lines and Warm Patina santa watercolor There is not much out

There is not much out there about Blouch except a few sales of work at auction (Garth's

such that the windows into his soul are voided

which evolved from the German word "putzen" meaning to clean or to decorate—as beginning in the late 19th c

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 just a bit of foxing in the sky of the painting

Uncommon Old Sleeve Stretcher with Graceful Lines and Warm Patina santa watercolor There is not much outThis 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