Anima Sola with Mitre Hat, Unusual Painted Icon on Wood Panel carved puzzle cube 3 3/8" in diameter x

3 3/8" in diameter x 2 1/8" tall and in very good condition with pretty minor paint loss

I was thinking this guy would be good illuminated by the folk art lamp with pin up girls I just listed

How could I resist this face

9 1/8" x 7" x 1 1/2"

was produced in the 1980s in a relatively small edition—the one other copy I found online came from the collection of the late James Perrizo

Anima Sola with Mitre Hat, Unusual Painted Icon on Wood Panel carved puzzle cube 3 3/8" in diameter xI take this small painting on wood as an anima sola lonely soul in purgatory but it is the first one I've seen where the subject is wearing a mitre, and a decorated one at that, marking him as a bishop I believe, and clearly one guilty of some sins! I don't know enough to know whether representing a specific bishop or whether delivering a more general commentary, but most definitely an usual one as far as I can tell, and really quite a thing. It seems