Poignant Old Photo of Nude Studio Model in Curious Pose north shore ma decoy based on a few images

based on a few images that made me think it might be quite a thing

that are cut slightly shorter than the rest

The blue beads for the eyes give this carved Madonna a pretty intense presence-she feels both very holy and rather otherworldly

In its original case

Poignant Old Photo of Nude Studio Model in Curious Pose north shore ma decoy based on a few imagesI love everything about this photo, 1910s 20s I believe from the movable studio wall in the background to the dirty floor to the Thonet chair in the corner to the framing of it all, all of which this nude seems completely of a piece with, as if she existed only in this context, of the ether but with grit under her fingernails. Which may have been exactly how the artist who I'd guess took the photo, perhaps in advance of a painting, saw her. And such a