Signed Clown Portrait Painting by Braun

This is an original oil or acrylic painting on board featuring a portrait of a smiling clown. The artwork is executed in an expressionistic, mid-20th-century style with visible, textured brushstrokes. The subject depicts a classic circus clown with a red nose, exaggerated red smile, and dark, fuzzy eyebrows, wearing a tall white top hat with a red band. The color palette is dominated by warm earth tones, reds, and oranges, contrasted against a gestural blue and white background. The piece is signed 'Braun' in dark paint in the lower-left corner of the composition. It is housed in a deep-profile black wooden frame with a gold-toned inner fillet that adds a sense of depth like a shadow box. Regarding condition, the frame shows some minor surface wear including small nicks and dust accumulation consistent with age. The painting itself appears well-preserved, though there is slight debris visible along the inner edges of the frame. The style suggests it was likely produced between the 1960s and 1970s, a period when clown motifs were highly popular in sentimental and boutique art. The craftsmanship shows confident impasto techniques and character-driven detail.