(Texas/Guyana, 20th/21st century)

Street Performer Clown; Wretched Old Clown; 1998, dated and signed to right foot "Patrick Davis", titled to left foot, paper mache, paint, and mixed media, 13 in.

Provenance: Property sold to benefit the American Folk Art Museum

Note: "Known for his paper mache figures, he assembles his figures over wire forms and then paints and clothes them with paper from magazines. His finishing touch is often tiny snakeskin scales, which he uses as fingernails and toenails. His elegantly posed figures are typically topped with a large hat, which Davis says he makes first and 'the rest just comes to me.'"

Street Performer Clown with crack to two left toes, crack to shoulder at left arm, some loss to paint and applied hair; Wretched Old Clown scratching, scuffing, top hat detached, but retained, dust, residue