1946 original discount Warner SallmanThe Head of Christ

This is an original 1946 The head of Christ. no issues or damage). See photos. Sold as is

The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a discount 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. Enlarged copies of the work have been made for churches, and small pocket or wallet-sized prayer cards bearing the image have been mass-produced for private devotional use.The painting is said to have “become the basis for [the] visualization of Jesus” for “hundreds of millions” of people.