Unknown models

 

Undated sketch of an unknown model

Although I try my best to make a note of dates and the name of models, in the process of making one sketch after another of one model after another, I sometimes forget. 

It was only this morning, in correspondence with an art gallery assistant in England, that we were bemoaning the absence of such records. And my models are of no help. After the passage of time, they cannot with certainty identify themselves in my work. Sometimes, a bracelet or necklace gives them a clue, or for me, the paper the sketch was made on. 

But the omittance does not lesson the value of my unknown model's contribution to the creative process.