Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique vesta looking herself intense in her

looking herself intense in her devotion

some paint drips here and there

doesn't stay open on its own

7 5/8" w x 6 3/8" t x 3" d

with the card "penciled and drawn by Eddie himself"

Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique vesta looking herself intense in herI believe this head is a Western, modernist carving done sometime between the late 1920s and early 50s. It actually immediately made me think of the work of Belarusian born French artist Ossip Zadkine (1888 1967) whose work (and museum and studio in Paris) I really love. Not large at six inches tall, but with a substantial and dramatic presence, with fantastically stylized forehead tapering into wonderful almost trunk like nose that feels as if