Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs vintage postcard and the French title--"L'Homme avec

and the French title--"L'Homme avec son ours" (Man with his bear)--written on the underside perfectly articulates the best friend status of this particular bear

which is stamped with a potter's mark on the underside of its front legs

and lined with wood inside

and then on the next page these great X's and squares in watercolor framing "A Child's Prayer

Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs vintage postcard and the French title--"L'Homme avecTo 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