Vintage (1930s) Double-Sided Original Art : Modernist Figure Sketch - Graphite Pencil On Paper, Unsigned.
Modernist figurative pencil sketch depicting a seated man wearing a hat while reading a newspaper. Drawing features a minimalist, gesture-based approach utilizing loose contour lines to convey form, posture, and balance. Graphite pencil on light colored artists’ sketch paper. Expressionist. Mid-20th-century modernist figural study. Visual emphasis relies heavily on rapid, structural linework.
Back side has oxidized and is darker. Unframed. Unsigned. Artist is Grace Alice Gassert. Acquired from her portfolio collection during her time at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in the 1930s. Rendered in Conte + Lithograph Pencil. Grace resided at the Y.W.C.A. on Arch Street in Philadelphia during this period. There is a cursive handwriting inscription at the bottom right that reads “Oct. 25”.
Measurements : 12” x 8.75”
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Vintage (1930s) Double-Sided Original Art : Modernist Figure Sketch - Graphite Pencil On Paper, Unsigned.
Modernist figurative pencil sketch depicting a seated man wearing a hat while reading a newspaper. Drawing features a minimalist, gesture-based approach utilizing loose contour lines to convey form, posture, and balance. Graphite pencil on light colored artists’ sketch paper. Expressionist. Mid-20th-century modernist figural study. Visual emphasis relies heavily on rapid, structural linework.
Back side has oxidized and is darker. Unframed. Unsigned. Artist is Grace Alice Gassert. Acquired from her portfolio collection during her time at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in the 1930s. Rendered in Conte + Lithograph Pencil. Grace resided at the Y.W.C.A. on Arch Street in Philadelphia during this period. There is a cursive handwriting inscription at the bottom right that reads “Oct. 25”.
Measurements : 12” x 8.75”
Price Includes Shipping.
