Strangely Satisfying Mid Century Watercolor Color and Form Study, with Face! antique articulated doll This is the third painting

This is the third painting by self-taught artist Charles Rabin (1897-1983) I've found

and their fantastic dresses composed of layers of cut crepe paper

Or perhaps it is a self-portrait

which are three dimensional

"  Perhaps it was used for combing small bits of fleece very very very finely

Strangely Satisfying Mid Century Watercolor Color and Form Study, with Face! antique articulated doll This is the third paintingI found this one at Brimfield this summer and just couldn't walk away from it something about the face on that darker blue form that feels highly empathetic (and also maybe like a nod to Miro or maybe Calder and also feels vaguely Swedish!), as if fighting to emerge as a being as opposed to being swallowed into abstraction! I've also just got a weakness for art school formal studies, which I think this is, exploring the intersections among shapes and