Modernist Gouache Painting on Paper of Woman in Bedroom drawing of French girl and mother with child looking

and mother with child looking rather like a skunk in its snowsuit

including geometric solids and this set of blocks

as the fit on some is indeed tight

which of course to my mind invites all sorts of imaginings about the nature of the shaking

Modernist Gouache Painting on Paper of Woman in Bedroom drawing of French girl and mother with child lookingThis painting on paper, gouache I believe, is one of my favorite Brimfield finds, which I removed from an unsuited frame, in part to look for, but not to find, a signature. (The unpainted border is the paper itself; the painting is not mounted to a backing sheet.) I think it's wonderfully done, and wonderfully mysterious not quite sure what is going on here?! It appears as if our nude might be about to light, or to extinguish, the lamp beside her bed