Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs vintage postcard a bit of dark green

a bit of dark green stain visible at the center of the underside

so think I've mitigated it well

and the French title--"L'Homme avec son ours" (Man with his bear)--written on the underside perfectly articulates the best friend status of this particular bear

as well as the math problems

some of them made in two parts to serve as incense burners

Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs vintage postcard a bit of dark greenTo me it feels rather right that this cubist style figure should show breaks and repairs in multiple places furthering the sense of fragmentation, and for the fact that it seems to reference a limbless Classical nude to begin with. I find it quite a beautiful and affecting thing, more so for the scattered stains and especially the darkening along the edges, which amplify its dramatic lines and stylized form. There is a signature at the base of the