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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 12770, member: 201&quot;]Alec, I agree that it seems odd for artists to share a sketchbook. But the work in the pads differ so much, I have trouble thinking they weren&#039;t shared. With whom, though, is to be determined. I&#039;ll add scans of a few of the drawings to the bottom of this post.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know it doesn&#039;t prove anything, but these are my thoughts...</p><p><br /></p><p>1. My mother stored these two sketchpads with the Schary drawing, which certainly seems to be authentic. I actually found the Schary drawing as a standalone paper inside one of the pads.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. In one pad, at the bottom of the drawings that look like Soyer&#039;s work, someone penciled &quot;Soyer.&quot; As far as I can determine, it does not look like his signature... but it does look very much like my mother&#039;s handwriting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although my mom was an artist, she did not do this type of work at all, so she didn&#039;t do the drawings. She was a born skeptic, and had a fairly sophisticated appreciation of fine art, so I don&#039;t think she would have written an artist&#039;s name by a work without a good reason. I assume either the seller told her whose work it was or she did library research herself. (This was pre-internet days.)</p><p><br /></p><p>3. At the bottom of one drawing, &quot;Gorky&quot; was written in pencil in the same handwriting that looks like my mother&#039;s. This drawing is just the initial outlines to indicate where the outlines of a person&#039;s head and body would be. Although I think it would be pretty hard to determine anything based on such a rough preliminary sketch, the approach actually looks like a couple of sketches I&#039;ve seen on the web done by Gorky. I&#039;m very doubtful, though, that anyone could authenticate this sketch even if it was done by Gorky.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. From what I&#039;ve read, Soyer, Gorky, and Schary were all friends, so there is at least a known association between them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of the sketches, one from each pad...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3012[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3014[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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