Help with age of Painting

Hi!...This is a thrift purchase...its a oil painting?.....done with a spatula technique I'm guessing?...its approx 16x20....it looks to be on a very course looking canvas,that looks to be almost burlap looking in texture?....but there seems to be a card board underneath the canvas....I'm thinking it have a little age on it because the paint is chipping off in a few areas...I don't know anything about the artist except the first name may be Pablo?....if someone can shed some light on this artist...it would be greatly appreciated.....

 

It could be this artist Pablo Espana. The work looks similar. He usually signs his whole name but I found one here where it was just signed Pablo.
It’s a heavy impasto palette knife technique, the paint falling off is because maybe the canvas might not have been primed properly or it’s been kept in an unsuitable place.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-post-impression-oil-painting-1824086734

 

The technique is impasto and it appears to be a decorative painting from the 1950s/1960s.

Debora

 

I think that's very likely the same or designed to look like the same hand. The artist signs Pablo. Espana (sic) means Spain in Spanish. A lot of commercial art came back to the U.S. with U.S. military personnel. These could well be examples.



Debora

 

I wasn’t sure if it was a surname, ie Peter Spain we have lots of people with surnames English and Welsh etc here in U.K.
If it is the same person maybe it’s an early painting and he thought to add Espana later perhaps, as you say Spain as a location not a name as lots of Pablos in Mexico etc.

 

Here's another signed Pablo España. Doesn't look like the same artist. I do think this is the type of artwork sold in a PX.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2749098400...MIoYuOmbmC9QIV52pvBB0ltg2rEAQYAiABEgLQfvD_BwE

Debora

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/774022...MIoYuOmbmC9QIV52pvBB0ltg2rEAQYAyABEgLzEPD_BwE

Debora

 

Hmm, the paving lines in the foreground are in all of the paintings shown here. Plus the figures/hats look similar. It’s hard to say, the op can do some more research. I don’t know anything about PX, I’m not sure we had them here in U.K.

 

There are 6 U.S. military bases in the UK with 24,000 U.S. military personnel. They will have a PX, a BX or the equivalent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_exchange

Debora

 

I’ve been to one of the (Mildenhall or Lakenheath) Airshows years ago when they had the Blackbird flying. I would suppose only authorised personnel could shop at these places as they are considered US territory, I know I’ve never been in one.

 

Yes, of course. Authorized personnel.

Debora

 

I had never heard of them either. Since I've never been to a US military base, I had no idea what sort of abbreviation it could be.

 

"... abbreviation it could be." Clever!

Debora

 

Well, not that clever, since I had no idea.