Skitser af dansende kvinde 1906

Niels Larsen Stevns made this sketch of dancing women in a notebook. What strikes me is the immediacy and fluidity of the lines; you get a sense of movement, like he’s trying to capture a fleeting moment. It’s all about the process, the act of seeing and recording. The texture of the paper is part of the story here, too. The grid gives a structure, a kind of constraint, but the dancing figures burst out from this. Look at how the lines overlap and intersect, especially around the figures' limbs. There’s an energy in those scribbled marks, a real physicality. It reminds me a bit of Rodin's drawings, where the body is suggested rather than fully described, there's a similar sense of capturing energy in motion, each artist expressing their own vision through lines that dance across the page. This sketch invites us to appreciate the beauty of incompleteness, the power of suggestion, and the joy of art as an ongoing exploration.