Carved and Painted Man Hanging from a Gallows

Description:

Carved and Painted Man Hanging from a Gallows, America, early 20th century, the polychrome male figure hanging from a noose on a raised gallows with carved steps, ht. 16 in.

Provenance: Ricco/Maresca, New York, 1996.

Literature: Illustrated in Roger Ricco and Frank Maresca, American Vernacular, New Discoveries in Folk, Self-taught, and Outsider Sculpture (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002),p. 138.
The Marvill Collection
Estimate $600-800


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