A back-view standing figure in green chalk — the figure stepping, the weight shifting from the right to the left foot, the body caught in the movement of a single forward step. The head is indicated at the crown with a compact coil or bun, described in dense overlapping circular marks; the hair at the nape of the neck falls in a few loose strands. Below, the body's vertical axis tilts slightly with the step, the left shoulder lower than the right, the hip raised on the side bearing the weight. The arms hang at the sides with the characteristic slight separation from the body.
The green chalk on white paper returns the figure to the 9.5"×25" narrow-vertical format after the 12.5"×19" sheets of the third portfolio's opening green works (1436, 1437). The figure fills the full height of the narrow strip from the compact bun at the crown to the stepping feet at the lower edge — the familiar columnar-figure relationship with the extreme vertical format. The chalk marks are confident and sparse: the outer contour of each side in one pass each, the nape strands in a few brief lines, the bun's coil in its concentrated marks.
The stepping posture — the weight shifting mid-step — gives this back view more implied motion than the static standing figures that dominate the narrow-format portfolio. The body's slight tilt, the one foot forward and one behind, the hip's elevation on the weight-bearing side: all these small indicators of movement accumulate into the impression of a figure in transit rather than at rest. Among the green chalk back views, this one is the most kinetically alive.
The compact bun at the crown — described with the most marks in the drawing — echoes the bun-hair series that runs throughout the figure drawings, though here in the green chalk's botanical context the coiled bun reads less as a hairstyle detail and more as the figure's visual crown, the densely marked topmost element anchoring the narrow strip's vertical axis. The green chalk here is a medium olive-green — slightly darker and more muted than the vivid bright greens of Works 1436 and 1456's immediate predecessors.