A left-profile pencil portrait — the face in clean left profile, the eyelash described as a fan of brief marks from the upper lid, the nose in profile with its specific character. The hair is the composition's most elaborate element: a large volume of loose wavy hair fills the right side and lower portion of the composition, the waves described with long flowing arcs that build a mass of natural movement. A horizontal bar appears at the lower left of the composition — possibly a microphone, a music stand element, or a table edge — a mysterious horizontal that grounds the left side of the composition without explanation.
The wavy hair described with flowing arcs recalls Work 1451's swept hair architecture, but here the waves are looser and more natural — not a designed hairstyle but hair in its own movement. The arcs overlap and flow across the composition's right half in a mass that extends below the face and behind the head, giving the portrait a quality of hair as living substance rather than ornamental architecture.
The unexplained horizontal bar at the lower left is the drawing's most intriguing element. It is described with a few short parallel marks suggesting a flat horizontal surface or object — a microphone stand, a music stand ledge, a table edge. Whatever it is, it places the figure in a context with specific furniture or equipment, suggesting the portrait was made in a specific setting — a performance, a lecture, a concert — where the bar in question was part of the observed scene.