Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs vintage postcard red and white paper surface

red and white paper surface

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

so think I've mitigated it well

and all the better for them--to my eye

Visible image: 18 3/4" x 11 3/4"

Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs vintage postcard red and white paper surfaceTo 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