Book49

Cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photograph of a granite Egyptian head on its museum pedestal

Back cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photo of an open book — 'Relation du naufrage de la frégate La Méduse' — and an embossed rooster

La salle des Caryatides
21 Dec 2013 - 1 June 2014
21.5cm x 15cm
bought at the Sennelier across from the Louvre
Paris, Gent, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Helsinki, Berlin, Indianapolis, NYC, Chicago

Sketchbook 49 endpapers: ex libris page with a photo of an Egyptian harpist relief at the Met and three blue Met admission tags (Feb 16–18), facing studies after Rubens nudes — Ghent, Paris, Dec 2013–June 2014

Sketchbook 49 page in sanguine: a nude pulling drapery from her shoulders with arm raised over her head, a lighter blocked-in figure beside her

Sketchbook 49 spread in wine-red pencil: a laurel-crowned nude seated in thought with hand to chin, and a heavily draped figure gathering her robes as she steps forward

Sketchbook 49 spread in red pencil: a nude curled on a block seat pressing both hands to her face, hair spilling over her fingers, with a faint rubbed-out figure on the facing page

Sketchbook 49 spread at the Musée Jacquemart-André: notes on Vigée-Lebrun, Van Dyck and Lord Leighton's 'Antigone', facing a dense graphite copy of Aleijs Loir's sprawling satyr with pipes

Sketchbook 49 spread: Louvre notes on Giulio Romano and Pannini's paired Views of Ancient and Modern Rome, a monk-robed figure, a wine-red crouching nude hiding her face, and a pietà study

Sketchbook 49 spread on small baroque bronzes at the Louvre, 30 Dec 2013: tangled sketches of centaur battles and Ovidian groups, a red reclining figure, and two experiments in failed balance

Sketchbook 49 spread on the Musée d'Orsay's 'Masculin/Masculin': notes on Guido Reni's Sebastian, the Barberini Faun, Ron Mueck and Mercié's David, with sketches of a lounging and seated male nudes

Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite study of a mannerist pose with arm raised, and a sanguine drawing of two intertwined nudes dated 30 Dec 2013, 17:45, at the Louvre

Sketchbook 49 spread: faint layered crowd studies in graphite and ochre — faces, lips, and a staring woman — with the note 'if you think this is over then you're wrong'

Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite drawing of wilting amaryllis blooms, facing a close study of a nude's hip and a small sanguine figure climbing into shadow

Sketchbook 49 spread: pale blue-pencil studies of draped figures with a shield-like disc, beside a graphite arm and a slender standing nude with raised arm

Sketchbook 49 spread: three charcoal-grey figure studies — a heavy nude bending with hands on knee, a striding draped figure with sword strap, and a fainter climbing figure

Sketchbook 49 spread: a horse-headed nude man beside a red bowl with whisk, and an Anubis-like figure draped in red over a large sphere, dated 1st April — a dream-like Egyptian pairing

Sketchbook 49 spread: a red-and-graphite banner-waving nude atop struggling fallen figures, facing a putto's face, a study of a nude's hip and thigh in pink, and a keychain shaped like an 8

Sketchbook 49 spread: two soft graphite studies of entwined wrestling nudes, limbs arched and knotted around each other's torsos

Sketchbook 49 spread: ballpoint portraits of long-haired conference-goers, a face with heavy eyes, and notes — 'board games as narrative devices', 'dice as the devil's bones', 'gamification is where capitalism wants to go'

Sketchbook 49 spread at the Met's Raphael drawings: graphite nude from behind, quoting 'keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges'

Sketchbook 49 spread on 'Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection': notes on the Sleeping Venus's winged-skull memento mori and gilt bronze, with two twisting figure sketches — 'the twist'

Sketchbook 49 spread: gestural line studies of tumbling bronze figures, with notes on Veronese's Hercules at the Crossroads and a seven-headed French Hercules-and-Hydra bronze

Sketchbook 49 spread: a single faint gesture drawing of curling, flame-like figures rising up the page fold, the rest of the spread blank

Sketchbook 49 spread of café and subway sketches: a hooded figure asleep on folded arms in red pencil, a child drawing at a table, and three bespectacled sleepers stacked in graphite

Sketchbook 49 spread in wine-red pencil: sleeping subway riders, a heavy downcast face, and two men leaning close over something in their hands

Sketchbook 49 spread in silverpoint-light graphite: a mustached man's face, a hand gripping a dark plum, a corked bottle, and a nude beside stacked studies of a bearded head and wing

Sketchbook 49 spread at Chicago's Driehaus Museum: sanguine studies of Tiffany bronze candlesticks and a caryatid ('Renaissance + Japanese motifs combined'), facing graphite silhouettes of cinnabar lacquer and skyline finials

Sketchbook 49 spread: dark graphite vignette of a seated figure with another curled beside it, facing a bending walking figure with bundled back, a lined older face, and scattered head studies

Sketchbook 49 spread at the Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki: ink sketch of a St Anne 'protects against plague' painting holding Maria and Jesu, a light tangle of figures, and a shaded reaching hand

Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite sketches of conference speakers — a man in glasses folded into a chair with a microphone, a cross-legged panelist, and a bearded man in beanie and thick glasses

Sketchbook 49 spread: ballpoint choir singers of the Berliner Domkantorei mid-phrase, with a pasted ticket for Bach's Matthäuspassion at the Berliner Dom, 12 April 2014

Sketchbook 49 spread: studies after Rembrandt's Man with the Golden Helmet at the Gemäldegalerie, and Géricault at Ghent's MSK — severed-head studies, phrenology marbles, and the 'head of a monomaniac'

Sketchbook 49 spread of Louvre copies: a crouching satyr and standing nude pulling off her shift, facing a Daumier-like group of heads and a pensive figure resting chin on fist

Sketchbook 49 page: finished graphite study of a lounging male nude with drapery across his thighs, one leg thrown wide, modeled against a dark ground

Sketchbook 49 spread on Michaël Borremans at BOZAR: thumbnail sketches of 'The Avoider', 'The Garment', 'The Angel' and 'The Devil's Dress' with notes, facing ballpoint figures from 'The Storm' 35mm projection loop

Sketchbook 49 spread: Zurbarán studies at BOZAR — Saint Gregory, the Agnus Dei bound lamb, a hooded San Francisco — facing Sevilla heads and 'Titian draws an Immortal, I draw but a girl', 6 May 2014