Theodor Kern (Austrian, 1900-1969); An Oil on Board Portrait of Two Young Gentlemen c.1940 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage There is one small tear

There is one small tear to one corner

and having been originally commissioned by Henry Gervas Stobart

and he published more than one hundred etchings during the next decade

in oils on board

Fly agaric is toxic and was traditionally mixed with milk and left out in bowls to kill flies

Theodor Kern (Austrian, 1900-1969); An Oil on Board Portrait of Two Young Gentlemen c.1940 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage There is one small tearOrigin: British Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1935 45 Width: 14. 25 Height: 19. 75 The unframed oil on board showing two youths or young males depicted cropped, the larger sitter shown looking out to the viewer, with the second figure with his eyes closed, the background showing a large industrial type building, awash with a sea green, painted by Theodor Kern in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In