Young Man in Striped Turtleneck with Billowing Pipe Old Watercolor, Framed antique splint basket though with a standard 3

though with a standard 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" recess on the back

The bright white glazing

The squares are hand numbered in ink

(See detail photos) Otherwise

like a wispy line drawing

Young Man in Striped Turtleneck with Billowing Pipe Old Watercolor, Framed antique splint basket though with a standard 3Total love at first sight with this antique watercolor what a face (those eyebrows, those blushing cheeks, those bow lips!), what a turtleneck, and I've got a weakness for images of pipes (which I think relates to Magritte), all the better emanating balletic trails of smoke as this one subtly does. I think if I were to live with this one I would carry on a lively ongoing banter with him he looks to me like a college student likely to have come