Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique bookmark which appealed to me for

which appealed to me for their absurdity in delivering what are rather cumbersome and not especially clever jokes

It measures 3ʺ in diameter and 4

erupting like lava indeed against the rich brown ground

and incised marks to individuate fingers

and especially

Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique bookmark which appealed to me forI 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