Vintage Oil on Board Portrait of a Cardinal, Unsigned huge bowl Sugar: 5 1/2" t x

Sugar: 5 1/2" t x 4 7/8" d

and then this fantastically alligatored creamy white paint for the windows

made even better by the free-hand painting of his eyes and paws

and the painting

Vintage Oil on Board Portrait of a Cardinal, Unsigned huge bowl Sugar: 5 1/2" t xI purchased this portrait from the son of it's original owner, who he told me she had "run" Bergdorf Goodman's in 1930s. I believe that was an exaggeration, but she did have some wonderful things, which he was selling off. This unsigned portrait might date from the 30s or so, I am not exactly sure; the artboard on which it was painted was at some point covered on the backside with a sort of adhesive vinyl, with the only information on it is a very