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Amazing Wood Sculptures

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Imagine if using a torch, you looked in a dusty dark corner of the loft/attic while inspecting your new home and you find some old newspapers and magazines, you would not think anything of it, then next to it you find a tatty old cardboard box stuffed with bundles of bank notes!
Did a forgetful bank robber or fraudulent banker live in the house before you? 😉

But when you pick the ‘box’ and papers up, thinking that you have hit Lady Luck and mentally book that exotic holidays, buying a new car, you discover that you are holding amazing detailed wooden sculptures instead!

Each has been carved by New York artist Randall Rosenthal using a block of Vermont white pine – and skilfully applied acrylic paint.

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Sculptor Randall Rosenthal carves lifelike bundles of bank notes and piles of newspapers (Picture: Randall Rosenthal / Caters)

Randall Rosenthal: Sculptor carves lifelike bundles of bank notes from wood pine
Mr Randall prides himself on his ability to carve a block of wood into life-like objects (Picture: Randall Rosenthal / Caters)

‘I just create from my mind, without photographs or objects as a guide,’ said the 61-year-old.

‘There is no attempt to hide the fact my work is wooden. Many shapes and thicknesses are subtly exaggerated.’

Randall Rosenthal: Sculptor carves lifelike bundles of bank notes from wood pine
Randall uses just a single piece of Vermont white pine to create his masterpieces (Picture: Randall Rosenthal / Caters)

Mr Rosenthal began making sculptures after seeing an open book carved as a Bible rest in a church.

‘I was so intrigued that I began carving open books. Then I started painting the pages and it all spiralled from there,’ he said.

His pieces are displayed in the Louis K Meisel and Bernarducci-Meisel galleries in New York City.