Annotaties 1914

This work by Willem Witsen looks like it's an accounting page or ledger, with numbers and notes scribbled in ink. I imagine Witsen, pen in hand, hunched over this very paper, perhaps in a dimly lit studio, wrestling with the more mundane aspects of being an artist. There's a raw immediacy here. You can almost feel the artist’s hand moving across the page, capturing thoughts, calculations, or maybe even stray ideas for paintings. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's scribbled surfaces, where the act of writing becomes a form of drawing. All these numbers feel like a kind of abstraction! It makes you wonder about the relationship between the practical and the poetic in an artist's life. Are these just mundane notes, or do they somehow feed into his creative process? Maybe Witsen found beauty or inspiration even in these everyday tasks – I know I do! It makes you realize that artists are always in dialogue, whether with each other or with the world around them.