multiple sheets of perforated paper bound together with a brown cardboard front cover and brown binding and missing back cover; first page in sketchbook is blank except for a black ink stain at the bottom center; second page of sketchbook has the head of a woman drawn in graphite in a blocky, sphinx-like manner; black ink is used around the top of the head; the following page on both recto and verso has cursive writing in graphite and in German listing items with Roman numerals; the following pages are blank except for a few paint and ink stains; multiple pages have been torn from the sketchbook, particularly at the front of the book

Sketchbook with parchment sheets and drawing titled Head of a Woman, Somewhat like a Sphinx, 1927

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Title
Sketchbook with parchment sheets and drawing titled Head of a Woman, Somewhat like a Sphinx
Artist Life
1897–1929
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2021.101.283
Catalogue Raisonne
Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation drawing 387
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multiple sheets of perforated paper bound together with a brown cardboard front cover and brown binding and missing back cover; first page in sketchbook is blank except for a black ink stain at the bottom center; second page of sketchbook has the head of a woman drawn in graphite in a blocky, sphinx-like manner; black ink is used around the top of the head; the following page on both recto and verso has cursive writing in graphite and in German listing items with Roman numerals; the following pages are blank except for a few paint and ink stains; multiple pages have been torn from the sketchbook, particularly at the front of the book