Painted Plaster Ribeye Steak! 1950s liquor bottle and and a large collection

and and a large collection of work by Alexander Calder

but that might be my guess

but this is #4

and I imagine it may indeed have been done as an illustration for a book or publication about sea creatures

Painted Plaster Ribeye Steak! 1950s liquor bottle and and a large collectionI'm not much of a meat eater, but no way could I resist this faux ribeye, I believe made for butcher shop display maybe in the 1950s or 60s. The sprayed on red is almost surreal (making me think they used the same red to paint a faux cherry pie!) and the whole thing is just the right amount of weird to make it a perfect sculpture with infinite interesting possibilities for display and grouping with other things. 8 3 4" l x 6 1 2" t x 3 7 8" d. It