Udkast til "Lars Dyrskjøt rider fra Aagaarde til Nørresundby", notat & kvadrering 1932 - 1935

Niels Larsen Stevns made this drawing, in what looks like ink, as a study for a larger painting. You can see the way he’s used the grid on the page to map out the composition, almost like a painterly version of pixelation. The marks are so fast, so loose. Look at how the figures on horseback are built up from these dark, energetic strokes. It’s like the artist is trying to capture the feeling of movement more than the details of the scene. The whole thing has a wonderful, raw quality. It reminds me of some of Philip Guston’s looser drawings, not in terms of style, but in the sense of an artist thinking through form and space in real-time. The drawing invites us to witness a mind at work, embracing the messy, unresolved nature of art-making. It's not about perfection; it’s about the process.