From: Commedia dell'arte.

Signed. Inscribed and discarded sketch verso.

"Closely related to "Theater" is "Commedia dell'arte" series, which consists of twenty-one drawings. There, the actors’ spontaneous movements, their masks, their exaggerated gestures, their grotesquery I tried to capture with strokes of a large oriental brush on soft rag paper – strokes that were to be as spontaneous, rapid, and precise as the movements of Commedia dell’arte actors." Leon Steinmetz