A large horizontal pencil drawing of a reclining figure from behind — the body filling the upper portion of the composition, the large rounded forms of the back, hip, and shoulder reading as pure landscape. This drawing approaches pure abstraction: the forms are so large and so simply described that they lose their anatomical identity and become hills, valleys, a geological survey.
The shoulder at the right is the highest point — a rounded mass against the upper edge of the paper. The back descends from it toward the hip at the center, then rises again at the left shoulder. The spine's ridge divides the back into two planes, each described through the shadow that marks its edge.
At the lower left, the hair — described in loose parallel strokes — is the only element that identifies this clearly as a human figure rather than a landscape. The hair is the anchor back to the figurative world.
The vast lower portion of the paper is entirely empty — the figure occupying only the top third, its back a horizon line above a large white silence.