Marion Adolf's c. 1970s Gouache on Paper Color Studies, Sold Individually asian man The cover is faded and

The cover is faded and shows wear around the edges and there are pencil markings on a few pages and on the inside cover

relating parquetry to the Chinese tangram puzzle

carving itself is about 1" wide and deep

Six layers of wood on most of it

Marion Adolf's c. 1970s Gouache on Paper Color Studies, Sold Individually asian man The cover is faded andI just can't resist a vintage art school color theory exercise, and strong gouache painted color delivered with precision is pretty hard to beat. Four examples here, c. 1970s the first three completed with handwritten text labels ("analogous colors", "split complementary", etc) and protective paper laid over top, attached with masking tape to the reverses. The fourth appears perhaps to have been a first stab at what became the third (letter C) with no