Blonde in Blue with Telephone, 1930s Naive Watercolor Drawing marble carved fox head and an old one

and an old one

and I really love the warmth and folkiness of this one

There is a fascinating history of wax modeling on the British blog

developers

Some age toning to the paper that I think just makes it better

Blonde in Blue with Telephone, 1930s Naive Watercolor Drawing marble carved fox head and an old oneWhat a face, and what a perfect head a'tilt, eyebrow raised expression as she holds her pale blue telephone with one red nailed hand over the receiver as if to ask, as she looks directly at us, 'how shall I respond to this one?' I take her for a hotel concierge or bellhop, c. 1940s, and it seems perhaps the watercolor was based on a still from a movie? Whether drawn from a film or not, it's got a distinct Hitchcock ian vibe to me, with that wallpaper