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A seated female figure, roughly seventy centimetres, carved from a pale wood left unvarnished. Knees drawn up against the chest, arms wrapping the shins; the hair falls in a dark mass over the shoulder, blackened wood with the grain showing through. The body keeps the natural split of the trunk, readable down the back. Wood alone here: no assembly, no added stone, one muted trace of red pigment on the flank. A silent presence, looking a little past the piece.
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One thinks of Käthe Kollwitz's seated, gathered figures. The pudic nudity, the near-flesh paleness of the wood, the painted hair contrasting like jewellery: a ritual object in the first sense, the kind before which a person sits down and falls quiet.