Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture anchor weight On the reverse

On the reverse

And what a great one

they still have full packets of needles inside

There is no shortage of great teapots out there

Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture anchor weight On the reverseI purchased this and a few other drawings by Edwin Kosarek from a dealer who had purchased a good number of them plus a journal kept by Kosarek, which provided a little biographical information. What I know is that he was from New Jersey (b. 1929) but spent a good part of the 1950s in Mexico, after which he briefly attended Cooper Union. He was gay, and estranged from his family, and, it seems increasingly mentally ill, with not much record of him