Hand-carved Reclining Nude Draped in Bedsheets woven leather with what I believe are

with what I believe are horsehair bristles running both horizontally

understandably

which are shot at 2x magnification as the crack is difficult to see without magnification

effortlessly emerging at some point from this sheet of muted green paper

--presumably an emerging thespian from Maine

Hand-carved Reclining Nude Draped in Bedsheets woven leather with what I believe areI don't know a thing about the origins of this carved sculpture (which I don't think photos quite do justice), but I think it is pretty terrific. My guess is that it is American, and her face and fantastic mane give it a late 60s early 70s feel to me, but I am really not sure. I love the way her hair wraps around all three sides of the sculpture, echoed by the deeply carved lines of the sheet draped over and around her. But perhaps what I love most