James Bone, "Ich Liebe" (I am in love), ink drawing, 1955 tiny owl but it is no longer

but it is no longer stuck to the paper below it

7 3/4" tall x 5 1/2" wide x 3" deep and in excellent vintage condition

with just light wear to the round

I keep thinking of the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz when I look at him

given pride of place on its own little shelf in the entry way

James Bone, "Ich Liebe" (I am in love), ink drawing, 1955 tiny owl but it is no longerI feel both full of love and full of the idea of love every time I look at this drawing. The way those fingers knit over our man's chest, just below that fabulous bowtie and in between the floating shirt buttons what a perfect distillation of the feel of a heart a'flutter in springtime! The 1955 drawing is an early work by James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), executed in ink (black, which reads more as dark brown now, and red for stripes on the bowtie).