I extricated this gorgeously executed drawing, rendered in a combination of black and sepia toned ink on heavy weight paper, from its original mat, to which it was adhered with rubber cement, visible now around the edges of the paper. That mat (which I've saved) was signed F. Robinson--which has lead me nowhere, but clearly he, or she, was quite an accomplished artist. Four marvelously distinctive portraits packed into one dense and dynamically composed image, with a terrific ambiguity about the situation that brings them together and what is happening just outside the frame. To my sensibilities, just the sort of piece on wants to live, never to be fully known but to consider anew every time one looks at it.
Paper: 14 x 11 1/8". Drawing area: 12 1/4" x 10. Old rubber cement stains (not sticky) around the perimeter as evident, and small corner losses, but drawing itself in excellent condition, and with a new mat and frame it will completely sing.
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