An unusual and technically distinctive portrait — green chalk and pencil on brown kraft-type paper, a combination found nowhere else in the collection. The brown paper ground gives the portrait an earthy warmth that neither the cream papers nor the white papers achieve, and the green chalk against it creates a relationship of complementary colors that gives the work unusual visual richness.
The subject — a young man in three-quarter view, his curly hair treated with particular care — is drawn with green chalk for the main contours and pencil for the interior shading. The dual-medium approach creates a layered quality: the green chalk establishes the figure's outer structure and character, while the pencil adds the tonal modeling that gives the face its volume. The eyes are the most intensely worked zone — green chalk brows and lash lines, pencil shadow building beneath.
The hair is the most accomplished element: a mass of overlapping curled marks that build a convincingly volumetric curly-hair form without repeating any single mark. This is hair drawn from sustained observation of the actual curling pattern.
The brown paper creates an unusual spatial context — neither the warm cream nor the cool white that frames the other drawings, but a positive ground with its own color and weight. The figure seems to emerge from this ground rather than exist against it.