A large horizontal pencil drawing of extraordinary tonal richness — a reclining or crouching back-view figure described almost entirely through shadow rather than contour, the body's mass built from overlapping pencil marks that create genuine depth and weight. This is the most tonal of all the figure drawings: where most works establish form through line, this one builds it through the accumulation of marks.
The composition is dominated by the rounded forms of the back, shoulder, and hip — each described through the shadow that falls on and around them. The upper left shows the shoulder and arm, deeply shadowed; the lower center shows the hip and lower back; the right side shows another body zone, the transition between forms described through the darkness between them.
At the lower left, what appears to be a foot or a hand — barely indicated — provides the only clearly legible extremity. The rest of the composition is a landscape of shadow and roundness, the body understood as pure mass.
A small architectural element at the very lower left — perhaps the corner of the model stand — provides the only geometric element in an otherwise entirely organic composition.