Self-Portrait in Sunglasses, a Pencil Study

This graphite study fixes the artist in dark rectangular glasses, her head slightly lowered. The face and shoulders are built in soft, layered pencil, the lenses worked up to a dense near-black, with a lattice of ruled diagonal lines drawn across the forehead and cheek like a measuring grid or veil.

The paper is left bare around her. Quieter and more analytical than the paintings, it reduces the same guarded, glasses-masked persona to pure tone and line, a piece as much about structure and self-scrutiny as likeness.