Marisol Escobar constructed figurative sculptures with wooden bodies, to which she added casts of human faces and limbs. This is a study for a witty, two-part wooden sculpture representing Sidney Janis, Marisol’s dealer at the time. In the final work, he is dapperly attired in a tuxedo, seated next to a slightly smaller standing “sculpture” of himself, also in a tuxedo. The study is for the head of the “real” Sidney Janis, the seated figure. The paper, bent into three dimensional form and held in place by staples, shows that Marisol originally thought about giving the block of wood on which the portrait is inscribed a rounded shape, but in the final sculpture the head is drawn on the flat surface of a wooden cube (though the back of the cube is slightly rounded).