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Lot 188

RPPC Painter and Beer Drinker 1934

Estimate: $50 - $1,000
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$10

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Real photo postcard depicting an artist seated with palette and brush beside a painted portrait of a jovial drinker, with another man posed at a small table with beer. Real photo process on postcard stock. The reverse includes a handwritten date “1934,” providing the clearest dating evidence for this image. Visible details include a heavyset man wearing a wide-brim hat and a vest with decorative trim, seated at a round table with a bottle and two glasses of dark beer. A second man, dressed in a suit, sits at an angle holding a palette with paint dabs, positioned in front of a large painting that repeats the drinker motif. The studio backdrop includes pinned images or sketches on the wall and a signature-like mark near the lower left. The reverse is largely blank aside from address lines and a multi-line inscription in a European language. The reverse reads: no printed text visible. Handwritten inscriptions read: includes “1934.” and a multi-line message beginning “Spak Hlinka …” with additional words that are not fully legible in the scan.

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