MershNoir, backstage
A dancer seen from behind, undressed and facing away into the room, with Mersh standing at the right in a robe, dark glasses and a cigarette, holding the edge of a curtain. Venetian blinds run behind them.
Two uprights side by side with a black panel dropped between them to separate the figures. She is fully drawn and he is barely started, so the sheet reads left to right as finished to unfinished.
Black ink over graphite on white. No colour.
Ink over pencil, abandoned partway: the woman is inked and modelled while Mersh is still a pencil ghost with only the head and hands brought up. The blinds are struck in as flat black bars.
Ink over pencil in a spiral-bound sketchbook, photographed as a page with the binding across the top.
No signature visible.
Sketchbook Ink MershNoir