James Bone, "Ich Liebe" (I am in love), ink drawing, 1955 Incan textile ) cracked but stable (there's

) cracked but stable (there's a bit of old chipping along the top edge

with the nose wiggling a bit if one tries

Her teachers included Stig Lindberg

was a souvenir from Jelling

The leather is wonderfully worn to a warm dark brown and it just has a great feeling to it

James Bone, "Ich Liebe" (I am in love), ink drawing, 1955 Incan textile ) cracked but stable (there'sI feel both full of love and full of the idea of love every time I look at this drawing. The way those fingers knit over our man's chest, just below that fabulous bowtie and in between the floating shirt buttons what a perfect distillation of the feel of a heart a'flutter in springtime! The 1955 drawing is an early work by James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), executed in ink (black, which reads more as dark brown now, and red for stripes on the bowtie).