Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs Dom Denisi 1940s-50s ribbed Zanesville pieces over

1940s-50s ribbed Zanesville pieces over time

They are 6 1/2" long and 1/4" diameter

where clearly it hung for many many years

with a long handle

with one eye and mouth wide open

Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs Dom Denisi 1940s-50s ribbed Zanesville pieces overTo 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