A large red chalk standing figure drawing with an unusual arm position — both arms raised and brought together at the head, the hands visible at the upper portion of the composition. The pose has a quality of someone adjusting their hair or stretching: the arms forming a frame around the upper head, the body below in a confident standing posture.
The figure is described with the characteristic sanguine economy — outer contour finding the body from the raised arms at the top, down the back and side, to the feet at the lower composition. The body is in three-quarter back view, the face barely visible as the head turns.
The arms and hands at the upper composition are the most described elements: the arm raised on the right, the arm crossing at the left, the hands meeting or overlapping at the upper center. The musculature of the raised arms is indicated through the contour's inflection.
The feet at the lower composition are both visible — the characteristic toe-by-toe attention even in this upward-reaching pose. The contrast between the elevated, active upper body and the grounded, specific feet is the composition's formal tension.