French Drawing by Bob Meyer: Dog Dreaming of a Boy Throwing the Ball, Unframed

A dog asleep, and in the dream, a boy with a ball. Few lines are needed.

This unframed drawing, titled Dog Dreaming of a Boy Throwing the Ball, is by Bob Meyer, from France, ca. 2017, in pastel on Nepal paper. Handmade paper of this kind has a soft, flecked surface that artists choose when they want the sheet itself to take part in the picture. A faint contour sketches a stretched animal form across the warm cream paper, touched with rose at the nose and joints. The title is penciled along the lower edge. Thirty and three quarter inches wide and twenty and a half high.

Anyone who has lived with a dog knows exactly what he is thinking.