Adobe Interior with Woman Cooking and Stripes, 1929 Oil on Cardboard Painting, Signed ratchet gears The form of the boots

The form of the boots and manner of carving is quite akin to naively carved wooden boots I have occasionally found

There is a little white paint on the back of one figure's neck and one missing toe of one boot

and the loop end is perfect for hanging from a nail

Lovely and very sweet

Adobe Interior with Woman Cooking and Stripes, 1929 Oil on Cardboard Painting, Signed ratchet gears The form of the bootsThe back of this painting is signed and a signature is scratched into the paint on the front right corner too, but I can't clearly read either. What first drew me to the painting is that wonderful passage of colorful strips at center, which I take for a bolster or perhaps a blanket running along the back of a platform sofa or day bed. But then it's all the details that make it really sweet the vessels lined up on the shelf above those stripes, the one