- Costume sketch in profile for a grumpy, red-nosed Harlequin in a blue trenchcoat, yellow flowered trousers, striped green cap, and red plaid gloves. In one hand he clutches a newspaper, while in the other he drags a parrot-headed umbrella. The pipe he clenches between his teeth emits a huge cloud of smoke. The paper on which this design appears also contains a drawing of Pierrot (omitted here).
As this sketch reveals, Eisenstein experimented with a pipe-smoking, trenchcoat-sporting Harlequin as early as 1919.
See book: p. 174
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