A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine all stockings had to be

all stockings had to be made by hand knitting using two needles

Yet if you should forget me for a while

The style of this work is not dissimilar to the sculptures of Georg Ehrlich [1897-1966] who worked a lot in England and we wonder if he had been an influence on our artist

It became a popular gem in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine all stockings had to beOrigin: 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,