Emile Bluteau Lumberjack Twins Sawing Log Folk Art Sculpture aldo londi for bitossi vase featuring walnut heads and painstakingly

featuring walnut heads and painstakingly sewn costumes

all pretty minor

1920s-1940s or so

8 1/8" tall x 6 1/4" widest diameter

Emile Bluteau Lumberjack Twins Sawing Log Folk Art Sculpture aldo londi for bitossi vase featuring walnut heads and painstakinglyThis fabulous tabletop sculpture of two lumberjacks sawing a log is the wonderful work of Emile Bluteau (1931 ?), a well known Quebecois folk artist, who began carving in the late 70s, first birds and then "the human condition in all its moods and shapes" as described by Lyle Elder, a great documenter of Canadian folk and outsider art. I absolutely love these very Canadian lumberjack twins, so sharp in their buffalo plaid shirts and red caps, and what