Emile Bluteau " Man and His Bear" Canadian Folk Art Sculpture Chinese canton Heavy and smooth

Heavy and smooth

Just a sweet little wooden dog pin

Connecticut

3 3/8" tall x 1 1/4" wide x 7/8" deep

7" tall x 2 3/4" widest

Emile Bluteau " Man and His Bear" Canadian Folk Art Sculpture Chinese canton Heavy and smoothIt seems quite Canadian that it should be a black bear rather than a dog that our man here is so lovingly patting, and the French title "L'Homme avec son ours" (Man with his bear) written on the underside perfectly articulates the best friend status of this particular bear! It's 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