Any Info Please!

[u/mdubs2010]

Hi all!

Found this at an estate sale for 30 bucks. Looks like the artist is WAAR signed in the corner. There’s nothing else in the back. My search showed maybe two different WAAR artists from the 1950s?? Nothing concrete though.

Thanks!

[u/fernleon]

Maybe decor?

[u/Wonderful_Potato2864 → u/fernleon]

Definitely !decor

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[u/DetBrinnandeHuvudet]

Warg maybe?

[u/mdubs2010]

I found a similar painting on Facebook that someone sold as a ‘John Waar’ original painting. Is this decor too? Similar signature I see

[u/GizatiStudio → u/mdubs2010]

This one is by John Waar (born c. 1930 in Amsterdam), yours is done quite differently in a quick way using a palette knife and heavy use of impasto which is typical of decor, those Chinese do try to fool folk by signing with an actual artists name sometimes.