4740. The drawings were more or less in the style of Degas,
but not quite so perfectly elegant. These were the drawings of a man who had
learned to draw over a long period of time; the struggle to master the craft
was still evident.
4741. Like all great artists of the past, he was left
handed, this was obvious from the twelve O'clock to four O'clock rapid curving
strokes that you see so often in Leonardo's silver point drawings.
4742. All of the drawings were of one woman, a young and
beautiful woman, just as you might expect, and the thing most obvious in the work
was the man's evident love of his subject. Here and there were some uninspired
and unfinished sketches and in them you could see a striving to get the effect
of a work by Seurat.
4743. In these drawings he used no lines, only tones of
massed darks that show the texture of the paper. But the figure works were all
in delicate hard pencil, probably a 4h, or even a 5. They had a silvery
quality, on a white paper tinted toward a faint blue.
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