Curious, Lumpy, Much Patinated Cast Metal Nude Signed Davin primitive wooden animal There was a strong connection

There was a strong connection between these veiled ladies and the Italian unification movement (Risorgimento)--with obfuscated features

10 5/8” x 7 3/4” and in good condition

(I like to imagine clothes strewn about in the trunk of his car after emptying the case in order to fill it with this bounty

It's cream color then decorated with two different shades of pink petals with light green at the centers--like a triangle-shaped bunch of flowers

a perfect case in point

Curious, Lumpy, Much Patinated Cast Metal Nude Signed Davin primitive wooden animal There was a strong connectionA curious, totemic feeling sort of a cast metal nude, which I love in part for how muscular she seems like the body builder of Eves! and also for the crustiness of the surface now, with patches of greening amid a spectrum of brassy and bronzy golds, and with the corrosion making her seem rather like an ancient fertility figure, recently unearthed! The reverse reveals her as a more recent sculptural creation, signed Davin and with what looks to me like