Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique bookmark 1 7/8" across at lip

1 7/8" across at lip

It measures 3ʺ in diameter and 4

erupting like lava indeed against the rich brown ground

Seems it might be a good one to hang in the office for when one needs a surrogate to exorcise frustrations

and incised marks to individuate fingers

Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique bookmark 1 7/8" across at lipI 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