A large horizontal pencil drawing of an unusual close-up composition — the upper body and shoulder of a reclining figure, the composition cropped so that no lower body and no complete face are visible. This is a study of the upper back, the shoulder, and the area around the neck from close range.
The shoulder occupies the right portion of the composition: the rounded form of the shoulder joint, the muscle masses of the upper arm and the deltoid, all described through confident pencil marks. The shadow at the armpit and under the raised arm builds the form's depth.
At the left, the head is partially visible — the crown and the back of the head, the hair described in loose marks. The face is turned away or hidden; the identity of the figure is not this drawing's subject.
The diagonal of the arm extending from the right toward the upper left creates the composition's dynamic axis — a line of force connecting the shoulder study to the larger composition it came from. This arm and shoulder study is the most anatomically focused of all the close-up body studies.