Young Man in Striped Turtleneck with Billowing Pipe Old Watercolor, Framed color spectrum the blue of his shirt

the blue of his shirt really is Yves Klein blue--like pure powdered pigment--and the green of his pants really does almost glow

I just love this little purple-glazed face

Just a terrific hand thrown bud vase--elegant

The is a 4 character syllabic signature carved just to the left of his foot

but this one

Young Man in Striped Turtleneck with Billowing Pipe Old Watercolor, Framed color spectrum the blue of his shirtTotal love at first sight with this antique watercolor what a face (those eyebrows, those blushing cheeks, those bow lips!), what a turtleneck, and I've got a weakness for images of pipes (which I think relates to Magritte), all the better emanating balletic trails of smoke as this one subtly does. I think if I were to live with this one I would carry on a lively ongoing banter with him he looks to me like a college student likely to have come