This charcoal Cubist Study of a Head, made around 1913 by the Hungarian-born artist Elemér de Kóródy, reflects the rapid absorption of Cubist fragmentation into Central European drawing practice in the years immediately before the First World War, the sitter's features broken into faceted, overlapping planes in a manner directly indebted to Paris. Kóródy remains a comparatively minor figure in the standard Cubist canon, and drawings such as this one are among the more accessible surviving evidence of how the style circulated beyond its principal originators. On paper, the sheet entered the collection through the gift of Martin Birnbaum in 1959, alongside a related graphite study. Scion notes that even lesser-documented artists gain evidentiary strength when related works share a single, traceable collecting source.