Marvelous 1929 Ink and Watercolor Drawing, Man with Goatee watercolor forest The tops on the peppers

The tops on the peppers

and also perhaps the contented look on his face

and he has what looks rather like a tiny hand and wrist for a nose

focusing on the presentation of illusions--like this card trick--that he had devised

it also seems that the figures represent different cultures—some seem South American

Marvelous 1929 Ink and Watercolor Drawing, Man with Goatee watercolor forest The tops on the peppersI'm pretty obsessed with this small drawing painting, and a very similar companion drawing of three women, including for the fact that I really can't pin them down. I know that they came from a portfolio of drawings dated 1929; this one is dated 4 4 29, and another from the same group is signed JK (or perhaps KJ). The elegant, lyrical, definitely Art Deco influenced graphic style in which this goatee d man is rendered reminds me of the watercolors of