LION with Huge Red Lipped Smile, Marvelous Large Pastel on Paper Folk Drawing, Framed as Found herb faucher inuit carving S from the turn of

S from the turn of the century until the 1920s

I believe South American

and specifically portraying "the intimacy of our former life at Ennadia Lake

dated 1830

giving them subversive feeling funny faces

LION with Huge Red Lipped Smile, Marvelous Large Pastel on Paper Folk Drawing, Framed as Found herb faucher inuit carving S from the turn ofI wish I knew everything about this one but I don't. I know it lived in a New England collection for many years, the same collection as the 1817 Lady Justice watercolor listed today; I purchased both from relatives, and know this lion was the owner's favorite. No wonder! It feels to me more more like a work of a self taught artist than a child, and a bit more "outsider" than "folk" a visionary version of a lion, though very much in conversation with a