A MOKHOVIK [MOSS-MAN]

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23.11.2020 14:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 435241
Lot 24 | A MOKHOVIK [MOSS-MAN]
A MOKHOVIK [MOSS-MAN]

RUSSIA, VYATKA REGION, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Stylistically modelled as a man, the body made from moss and the arms from trimmed fir cones, tied with strings, wearing woven bast lapti with string ties, on a rectangular wooden base, carrying a wooden stick, apparently unmarked; together with a group of thirty-six wooden toys, some hand-carved and hand-painted

7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

together with a group of thirty-one landscape and architectural studies and a group of two hundred and thirty-five early sketches

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