A working study sheet combining a portrait with two ceramic vessel studies — the most multi-subject drawing in the collection. At lower left, a face seen in three-quarter view looking upward — the eyes wide, the hair falling loose around the face, the expression one of dreamy upward attention. At upper center and right, two ceramic vessels: rounded, smooth-sided, each described in a few arcing pencil lines that capture the form's elliptical silhouette.
The inscription at lower left is the most informative in the entire collection: "Emil or Joe / 1923 / 'Eve'" — suggesting this drawing was made in 1923 (one of the earliest dated works in the collection), and that the title "Eve" was either assigned by Sidney or by one of the people named (Emil or Joe). The uncertainty of the name — "Emil or Joe" — suggests Sidney was recording a drawing he encountered or copying it rather than having drawn it himself, though this is not certain.
If the 1923 date is correct, this is among the earliest works in the entire collection — predating Sidney's formal art education and any confirmed period works. The drawing quality — the face, the vessels — is already accomplished.
The combination of the upward-gazing face and the two rounded ceramic vessels on a single sheet has a compositional logic: the face and the vessels are all rounded forms, the ceramic forms echoing the human face in their smooth roundness.