Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle It is the work of

It is the work of Conrad Fehn (b

With the hair the figure looks female to me

or else connected to a truck cab that would have pulled it

but one wants to be a little gentle with it

(Body is more stiff than soft

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle It is the work ofI purchased this one from a dealer in Maine, who had a number of works that had come from the estate of Elizabeth Heredia Snyder Rees (1919 2011) not an artist I was familiar with, and much of her work not really my cup of tea, but I found and find this pretty wonderful, and clever, too: a pair of lovers rendered in modeling clay atop an old Cuban Romeo Y Julieta cigar box, with the box doing quadruple duty as a base, and a stand, and as inspiration