Kop van een papegaai en een ontwerp voor een maandkalender c. 1895 - 1900

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet created this sketch, "Head of a Parrot and a Design for a Monthly Calendar," using graphite on paper. The composition feels like a collection of fleeting ideas, unified only by the artist's hand and the paper's surface. We see the parrot's head rendered with delicate, curving lines that capture its form and texture. To the right, a skeletal calendar design emerges, its numbers and divisions hinting at a structured system. Cachet destabilizes the traditional relationship between art and utility. Is this a study? A functional design? The work resists categorization. The juxtaposition of the organic parrot and the geometric calendar creates a tension. It hints at a deeper meditation on time, nature, and the artist's role in mediating between them. This unresolved nature of the sketch invites us to ponder the provisional quality of meaning itself.