A red chalk figure drawing of a figure in the act of lifting or removing clothing — both arms raised, the hands gripping the fabric of a garment being pulled upward. This is the only figure drawing in the collection that depicts a figure in motion in a domestic act rather than holding a studio pose. The garment — described as a band of fabric across the raised arms, with the figure's torso visible below it — creates the most narrative moment in the life drawing series.
The raised arms create the composition's dominant horizontal: two arms elevated, the hands gripping, the cloth stretching between them. Below this horizontal, the body is partially visible — the lower torso, the hip, the beginning of the legs. The body's exposure in this in-between moment — neither dressed nor undressed — is the drawing's subject.
The figure is described in the characteristic sanguine economy, the red chalk marks finding the body's form through the cloth's billowing mass above and the bare skin below. The compression of the marks at the waistband zone — where the garment is being lifted past — is the most specifically descriptive detail.
This drawing raises a question about the life drawing session context: was the model between poses and Sidney drew the transition? Or was this pose specifically requested? Either way, it is the collection's most narrative figure drawing — a story rather than a state.