Wonderfully Done Papier Mache Head of Man with Large Ears curious objects a happy family

a happy family

I love the outfits

looking a bit possessed and definitely as if he might see into one's soul (and with a soulfulness himself that makes me think of portraits of Lincoln

I was pretty excited to find this little antique French reversal drawing

And then this face

Wonderfully Done Papier Mache Head of Man with Large Ears curious objects a happy family(Forgive my terrible photos, which do this no justice I find it very difficult to document anything white well at all!) I was delighted to find this guy yesterday at an antique shop in my neck of the woods, and while I don't know that he's antique, he definitely has quite a good number of decades on him. The head is true head sized and was made by someone who certainly knew what they were doing; it has much more the feel and presence of a plaster