Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet reading rather like an adobe

reading rather like an adobe house built into an anthropomorphic mountain with a protective arm extended out front carving out a private terrace

with these highly stylized stacked animals on opposite sides rendered in matte baby blue

Below the top eye holes are a second pair of cutouts backed by hide pockets

dense on the front and sparser on the reverse

It's the wonderful work of Emile Bluteau (1931-

Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet reading rather like an adobeI don't know who made this folk art strongman, but I think he is really fabulous, and would be pretty great in an entryway offering an unforgettable spot to toss one's keys! Really, he looks to me most of all like an all American farm boy, maybe carrying a load of laundry in the basket overhead. And a super basket it is, too, nicely woven of colorful plastic wire cord of varying widths, with a wooden bottom, to which his hands are forever joined. Then