An Unusual Early 20thC Hand-Painted French Theatre Backdrop c.1915-25 reserved having a slanted back to

having a slanted back to small ear wings

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

The chair is in very original condition with all of its components surviving with no restoration to note

and two winding apertures

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

An Unusual Early 20thC Hand-Painted French Theatre Backdrop c.1915-25 reserved having a slanted back toOrigin: 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,