Ooohh, I like that painting,
if it is an actual oil. What is it painted on, it doesn’t look like canvas.
One seldom sees mixed-race subjects in a painting with the black person being the “primary subject”.
If the backing is paper, then it could possibly be a
“textured” print of an old “scene”, ..... and thus quite possibly was at one time a "
piece of Advertising" which would be great for you if the "product" could be identified. Anyway, a “Black Collectible” just the same.
By old “scene” I mean, the clothes, the hat and the “deck of cards” the fortuneteller
is using. The cards have
no numbers on them …. which means they were typical “pre-mid-1800s playing cards”.
And ps, Regularjoe2, that is a “sewing basket”, not a bucket-o'-guts.
She is using the lid from the basket to deal the cards on.
