Perfect Patina, Earlyish 20th C. Graphite Drawing on Toned Paper, Yielding Very Excellent Moon Face signed mannequin professionally framed with archival backing

professionally framed with archival backing

Box measures 12 3/4" x 9" x 1 3/4"

Patination and minor corrosion as shown

then painted in soft blue

enhancing the feeling of this as its own little homestead

Perfect Patina, Earlyish 20th C. Graphite Drawing on Toned Paper, Yielding Very Excellent Moon Face signed mannequin professionally framed with archival backingI have to say I'm pretty obsessed with this drawing, to my eye made a hundred times better by what seems to be a chance stain toning, which turned the graphite drawing of the features of a face it into a face on the moon. Perhaps I'm wrong and the drawing was made after the discoloration, but I really don't think so. Just so right, including for this punched edge on a second piece of paper to which it was attached, and a penmanship practice exercise