Edwin Kosarek 1950 Blue Ink on Brown Paper Drawing "Erongaricuaro" #2 porcelain candleholders Stamped (impressed) with Creil on

Stamped (impressed) with Creil on the reverse for Creil Montereau

the color remains super vivid

hence the image of Athena at the bottom center of the plate

The iron is rusty and will flake a bit when handled

I really loved finding this one the other day in Maine--I was first drawn to the striking

Edwin Kosarek 1950 Blue Ink on Brown Paper Drawing "Erongaricuaro" #2 porcelain candleholders Stamped (impressed) with Creil onOne of two more drawings by Edwin Kosarek today, of which I've had a good handful, and just went back to my source and grabbed these last ones. 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 after the 1950s. I think his drawings are wonderful,