Stilleven met een globe, wijnfles, glas en doosje c. 1916

This sketch of a still life was made by Reijer Stolk, we don't know exactly when but he died in 1945. It has a quiet, searching energy. You see the globe, a wine bottle, glass, and box emerging from the artist’s patient observation. It must have taken time and consideration to make. I can imagine the artist deciding to create this tableau, setting up the objects just so, considering the light and shadow. The globe, with all its cartographic information, is reduced to a simple, shaded circle. The delicate, almost tentative lines describing each object show Stolk's careful, playful approach, reminding us that artists are constantly in conversation with one another, taking inspiration, and responding to their peers. There is a constant exchange across time.