The Gaori Homestead, Sweet Old Painted Cigarette Tin with Note Inside Swedish wooden plate This super charming green bird

This super charming green bird is the work of Yves Robitaille (b

I think this is a fantastic drawing--giving form to "stuck"-ness in an explicitly literal (and very 1970s) way

like echoes of a fluttering arm

Gouache on cardboard

8 1/2" x 7 9/16" x 3/4"

The Gaori Homestead, Sweet Old Painted Cigarette Tin with Note Inside Swedish wooden plate This super charming green birdA sweet little thing, which I love for the naive farmhouse painting on its face, and also for the note inside which dismisses the value of the painting but proclaims its folkloric value! Painted by a Willie Gaori of the "Gaori homestead," c. 1940s or so I believe. 5 7 8" x 4 1 4" x 3 4" and in good condition.