Figuurstudies c. 1935 - 1936

This is a pencil drawing by Cornelis Vreedenburgh, sketched on paper. I love seeing the artist's hand at work here, those tentative lines searching for form. It feels like a really intimate peek into the artist's process, not a finished product, but alive with possibility. I can almost feel Vreedenburgh’s hand moving across the paper. What was he thinking, I wonder, as he rapidly sketched these figures? Was he trying to capture a fleeting moment, or working out an idea for a larger piece? The beauty of art is that it is not about a fixed meaning, but the opportunity for conversation across time, inspiring each other's creativity. It's like painters are in an ongoing dialogue, constantly responding to and riffing off one another’s ideas. And with a sketch like this, so open and ambiguous, there's room for us to join in too.