Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned d'alveydre equilibriste Tons of fat nails all

Tons of fat nails all over the backside too

Really a terrific piece

representing a great deal of resourcefulness and creativity on the part of its maker--as well as a great deal of dexterity and persistence

with this stocky figure carrying something in his (I believe his) arms

a little paint loss to the top edge on the wolf

Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned d'alveydre equilibriste Tons of fat nails allI 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