Dry Riverbed, Samburu Still Lifes I was delighted to find

I was delighted to find these two portraits tucked away in a country saleroom during the first lockdown for something of a steal

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

During lockdown I spent some time on a narrowboat on the Regent’s Canal

I’ve not come across this artist before and barely any paintings appear on the market so this is valued entirely on the image of these two - is it dog resembling its master or vice versa

Sheffer’s work is presumably an illustration intended for publication in a mainstream magazine

Dry Riverbed, Samburu Still Lifes I was delighted to find