Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned d'alveydre equilibriste Much more about McKay here:

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and he definitely has a patina on him

with this stocky figure carrying something in his (I believe his) arms

with blackening in some areas as a result of the firing process

Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned d'alveydre equilibriste Much more about McKay here:I 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