Unknown, Boston
Sketches of the Play "Charley's Aunt", 1915
Graphite on paper
These six pages of paper appear to be cut from a theater program that includes advertisements for a tea room and a women’s clothing store. Five pages are oriented horizontally, one vertically. Three pages contain sketches in graphite. One of these pages shows two views of a woman, one from the waist up and the other just of the head, facing to our right. Another page shows a woman’s head, facing toward our left. The women sketched in these two pages are wearing a bonnet and may be the same person. The third page with a sketch includes a doodle that may be a woman’s head, shoulders, arms, and part of a gown.
Vatichino
Commentary
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