Girl with Basket, 1885 Wonderfully Strange Graphite Drawing tall vase with branching tree with lots of use in

with lots of use in it yet

as these are harder and harder to find

13 1/8” x 8 1/8”

and one driving off the edge of the page altogether

which became Slovenia in 1918)

Girl with Basket, 1885 Wonderfully Strange Graphite Drawing tall vase with branching tree with lots of use inIf you perceive this drawing as if our girl is looking straight ahead rather than down with lids closed, it becomes a bit of an eerie one, as if she were possessed by otherworldly forces! But even if one reads her eyes as closed, its still got a wonderful sort of strangeness, with her hat looking as if might be concealing a rising loaf of bread! I especially love the very focused treatment of her hair. Graphite and blue crayon, dated Sept 15,1885 at