A bold and expressive charcoal drawing, *After Velázquez* reflects Grace Hartigan's engagement with art historical sources filtered through her Abstract Expressionist sensibility. Hartigan reinterprets the classical influence of the Spanish master with gestural, energetic mark-making that simultaneously honors and transforms the original imagery. The work demonstrates her ability to bridge figuration and abstraction, using the raw directness of charcoal to assert both spontaneity and formal strength.