Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas wabanaki thimble basket Poirer's work often included riddles

Poirer's work often included riddles and rebuses

Photos are shot at 2x magnification (so you can see bits of dust here and there

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which I think give the piece a nice patina of age and use

Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas wabanaki thimble basket Poirer's work often included riddlesI'm quite taken with this small painting, which I can't stop looking at, and which has a fantastic presence and gravitas that I think far exceeds its small size, though its scale is exactly right. I see a green snake with bared teeth and fantastically long tongue, which winds through and around the rest of the forms, literally tying them together. I'd guess the painting titled "The Story" portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with red tree at