The bowed crown could be a tulip or a hooded head mid-turn, and the drawing seems entirely uninterested in settling the question. Okonkwo commits to a single unbroken outline in the manner Matisse trusted late in life - no interior modelling, no hedging - though the line here wobbles rather than glides, doubling back at the right edge as if changing its mind on the way out.
The bowed crown could be a tulip or a hooded head mid-turn, and the drawing seems entirely uninterested in settling the question. Okonkwo commits to a single unbroken outline in the manner Matisse trusted late in life - no interior modelling, no hedging - though the line here wobbles rather than glides, doubling back at the right edge as if changing its mind on the way out.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery