A MOKHOVIK [MOSS-MAN], RUSSIA, VYATKA REGION, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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

Provenance

The family of the artist.
By descent to the present owner.

PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF THE ARTIST