Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique bookmark despite looking for them all

despite looking for them all of the time

Sturdy and with no issues

I'd use it as a pedestal for something stunning

It measures 3ʺ in diameter and 4

Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique bookmark despite looking for them 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