#dark

Apparently he kept a handwritten catalogue of every single thing he made, numbering each one as it left the easel — the pencilled line along the bottom edge is his own filing, not a museum label.

I tried to look him up and got almost nothing — no dates, barely a paragraph anywhere. Whoever he was, this seems to be one of the few things of his that made it into a collection at all. If anyone knows the story, I'd genuinely love to hear it.