A large-format signed pencil portrait — the face in left profile, the eyes looking downward with the lids heavy and slightly closed, the expression of a person absorbed in a quiet internal moment. The hair falls loosely from a headband at the crown, the strands flowing to the right with the characteristic parallel-mark description. The face is described with care: the profile outer contour from brow through nose to lips to chin is a single sustained line, with marks at the eye's lash and lid providing the face's most specific zone. A small monogram — Sid — appears at the lower left, confirming the work as signed by Sidney.
The downward cast of the eyes — the lids heavy, the gaze directed below the frame — gives this large portrait a quality of private reverie, the subject entirely absorbed in their own thoughts. The large format (19 by 25 inches) and the spare treatment — pencil on white, the figure placed in the upper half of the large sheet — gives the face both scale and breathing room: it is large enough to be imposing but surrounded by enough white to feel intimate.
The headband is a specific accessory that places the subject in a particular era and social world — a functional rather than decorative hair item, the headband simply holding the hair back. The hair falling behind the headband and then forward at the temples creates the composition's most animated zone, the strands drawn with the same individual-strand attention that distinguishes the most sustained pencil hair studies in the collection. Among the signed large-format pencil portraits, this is the most quietly elegant.