Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper boat race Day on the first yellow

Day on the first yellow bead

Art nouveau in style

I would guess he dates from the late 19th or early 20th century

but it does not seem to snap closed tightly (not sure if it ever did

There is a bit of dust caught in one corner underneath the glass and some dings to the wood on the perimeter of the tray but it is is very good overall condition

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper boat race Day on the first yellowI am not quite sure why I find this drawing painting so satisfying, but I do, totally. It feels completely resolved, and rather like it always existed, effortlessly emerging at some point from this sheet of muted green paper, which, scuffed and smudged, feels like its been around forever too. I believe it is actually a portrait of the late artist and longtime art professor Leon Hovsepian of Worchester, MA, at whose estate sale I purchased it; perhaps