An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché French Fairground Passé-Boules Ball Toss Game Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews beforehand

beforehand

Height: 10

Canvas:  41

The paper label to the reverse tells us the artist’s name again and that the picture was painted in Bruges

An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché French Fairground Passé-Boules Ball Toss Game Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews beforehandOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Early 20thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910 35Height: 25Width: 14. 5Depth: 10The papier mch Pass Boules toss game, as a Pierrot clown, wearing a blue rimmed pointed hat, with a gaping open mouth into which one tosses balls, showing the original painted features, and with unusual glass eyes, the whole on a pink painted hanging board showing related newspaper cuttings to the reverse, to a ball tray with chalked sections at 2, 5