1950 Edwin Kosarek Ink Drawing of Woman with Long Hair metal teeth crayon and pencil on construction

crayon and pencil on construction paper

the basket is in very good condition

now there is a wooden plug at that end that makes a good base for standing it

It is marked England on the interior

It seems to be quite a rare one--I can really find no equivalent examples out there--and I think just terrific looking

1950 Edwin Kosarek Ink Drawing of Woman with Long Hair metal teeth crayon and pencil on constructionI purchased this and a few other drawings by Edwin Kosarek from a dealer who had purchased a lot of them plus a journal kept by Kosarek, which provided a little biographical information. 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