SOLD Henry Hickel's Perfect Graphite and Crayon Star, 1913, Lancaster NY shunga print on cloth 18" x 18" x 7/8"

18" x 18" x 7/8" and in great condition

Glorious color

Mother and daughter (surely

Solid bronze

to be held in order to make the doll dance

SOLD Henry Hickel's Perfect Graphite and Crayon Star, 1913, Lancaster NY shunga print on cloth 18" x 18" x 7/8"One of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart 1913 sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it and stamped it all over this particular page! This is the drawing that completely sold me on the sketchbook I find this pastel crayoned eight point star, drawn over a fainter penciled grid, used to help him get it just right a transcendently lovely thing. And with the star very much making me