A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine the work signed on the

the work signed on the reverse for Emile Buzon

Excerpted from an 1885 essay

he was apprenticed first to his father and then to the local saw-pit and was discovered by the political satirist John Wolcot (better known by his pen name Peter Pindar)

She has been relined on a new stretcher and the painting is apparently unsigned

Powers was overwhelmed by the demand for more full-size versions and busts

A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine the work signed on theOrigin: French Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 60 Heights: 7, 10, 10, 14 Diameters: 8, 8, 8, 16 The wonderfully fun stylised and over sized hand painted composition stone models of fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria) each in the distinctive scarlet red and white colourway with white spots, having ribbed bodies, each freestanding, surviving from the middle section of twentieth century France. Remaining in good overall condition,