Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting ready made two different sets of initials

two different sets of initials were carved into the frame

7 3/8" x 3 1/8" x 2 7/8" and weighs 1 1/4 pound

with a bit of a mid-century feeling about it

an old center fold

feeling both very modern and timeless

Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting ready made two different sets of initialsTo me, there is something so right about this elusive portrait, painted by an artist unknown to me, but which I know dates to the 1960s or so. Thinly painted on what I believe is an unprimed linen panel board, it seems to me both about the materiality and constructed illusory nature of painting itself and also about the subject himself, doubly veiled in a sense by the painter's treatment, and by his great beard! Hovering in a sort of liminal space, it