Ontwerp voor vignet van de Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij 1874 - 1945

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this design for a vignette in watercolour, probably on paper, but maybe it was tracing paper. It's all blues and whites and greys, fluid and loose, like he’s just letting the water do its thing. It feels so immediate, like a snapshot of a thought in progress, where the process is visible in every brushstroke, in the way the colours bleed and mingle. The blues are layered and transparent, evoking depth and movement. Look at the way the brush dances across the surface, especially in the upper left corner, creating these swirling patterns. It reminds me of those moments in the studio when you’re just trying to find the right gesture, the right energy, and you let the medium guide you. This piece has that kind of raw, unfiltered energy. It reminds me of some of the early vorticist painters like Helen Saunders, with that same sense of dynamic energy and abstracted form. It's a reminder that art is an ongoing dialogue, an exchange of ideas across time and space, and it’s up to us to keep the conversation going.