Hand-carved Reclining Nude Draped in Bedsheets woven leather yielding a sort of moire

yielding a sort of moire pattern when viewed head on

with what I believe are horsehair bristles running both horizontally

which photos do not capture well

--presumably an emerging thespian from Maine

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

Hand-carved Reclining Nude Draped in Bedsheets woven leather yielding a sort of moireI 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