Drawing Pastel on Nepal Paper by Bob Meyer: Pleasure Hopefully Comes, Framed

A body in coral and graphite, half arriving, half already gone.

Pleasure Hopefully Comes is a framed drawing by Bob Meyer, from France, ca. 2017, in pastel on Nepal paper. Artists draw the nude to study the human body and its moods, and pastel has long suited the figure; framed drawings like this are made for collectors' walls. A nude form turns across the sheet, its torso and limbs built up in strong orange-red, its head in a pale peach. Fine, searching dark lines move over the color and drift off into blank paper. A wide cream mat sits inside a carved gilt frame. Thirty-five inches wide and 42.5 high.

The title is a hope. The drawing leaves the matter open.