Young Man in Striped Turtleneck with Billowing Pipe Old Watercolor, Framed antique splint basket like a wispy line drawing

like a wispy line drawing

The squares are hand numbered in ink

though I am not certain on that

I believe

Young Man in Striped Turtleneck with Billowing Pipe Old Watercolor, Framed antique splint basket like a wispy line drawingTotal 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