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Lot 3044
Alabama Folk Art, James "Buddy" Snipe (b. 1943) Pear Head
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Paint on tin with twig frame, attached tag with title: "This is Pear Head, because she ate so many pears growing up", signed on the verso of the tin.

17 x 9.5 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Having spent most of his life doing laborious jobs, in the 1980s Buddy began making things out of whatever he could find that sparked his imagination.

Rusting to the tin on the back side, as is common.