A large watercolor portrait face — but rendered with the most chromatic freedom of any face in the collection, the color applied in splashes, spatter, and broad washes that barely hold the face's structure together. The image emerges from the color rather than being described by it: the eyes — amber-brown, forward-facing, rendered with the closest attention and the darkest marks in the composition — are the one fixed point around which everything else dissolves into color event.
The surrounding color is extraordinary: blue splatter across the upper left, pink and yellow washes in the hair region, green and teal at the right side, red-brown at the lower left. These are not colors describing a face but colors happening around a face — the chromatic atmosphere of a specific person's presence rather than their physical description.
The nose and mouth — both indicated with black ink, both positioned correctly — anchor the face's geometry without fully describing it. The chin and neck below dissolve into loose red and purple lines that trail downward without resolving into form.
This is the portrait pushed to the boundary between representation and pure color event. The face is both visible and vanishing — like the ghost face of the monotype (657) but inverted: where 657 is colorless and atmospheric, this is chromatic and explosive.