Abklatsch van de krijttekening op pagina 24 1875 - 1934

This transfer of a chalk drawing was made by Isaac Israels. You know, looking at it reminds me how art isn’t always about making something from scratch. Sometimes it’s about taking something that already exists and moving it. Here the marks are soft, smudgy, almost ghostly. The texture is everything here. You can almost feel the grain of the paper and the way the chalk must have crumbled. It’s so ephemeral, so fleeting, like a memory fading away. It feels like a conversation, a whisper of something seen or felt, then lightly transferred onto the page. See that dense cluster of marks in the middle, a little to the left? It’s a tangle of lines, a little storm of energy, a concentrated scribble. Israels was known for his impressionistic style, capturing fleeting moments of modern life. And this piece, this little transfer, seems like the perfect embodiment of that. It’s not about perfect representation, it’s about capturing a feeling, a mood, a fleeting impression. Think of Degas, who also explored similar themes of movement, capturing fleeting moments in time. The process embraces ambiguity.