This simple self-portrait shows that Robert has been looking at Baroque images, with their moody lighting effects. Most of his face is drawn in shadow, with the hair and clothes left as an unfinished, frame-like outline. Robert has further stylized his drawing by making all his shading lines run in the same direction rather than follow the contours of the face. Rather than sign the work, Robert has written: “Me by Me” at the bottom of the drawing, a double assertion of selfhood that comes across as slightly childish and also as a challenge to others. By with-holding his name, Robert by-passes the usual formality of self-accredidation or the posterior thinking of one anxious to have his work properly identified.