Ontwerpen voor kleden of tableau's met monogrammen van scheepvaartmaatschappijen 1874 - 1945

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made these designs for carpets or panels with shipping company monograms, but we don’t know when. Look at that watercolor bleeding into the paper, and the under-drawing in pencil! You can see the grid. It gives the whole sheet this feeling of open possibility, like anything could happen. I can really feel Cachet thinking through the problem, trying out different options and solutions. There's one design in pale grays, all ghostly and faint, next to others bursting with blues, reds, and greens. I wonder what it was like to be Cachet at that moment, juggling all these ideas. Do you think he felt the weight of tradition, or the excitement of innovation? And how might his own artistic practice, his obsessions and the questions he was asking himself at the time, have shaped these commercial designs? Ultimately, painting is a conversation, isn't it? Each artist building on what came before, responding to their contemporaries, and leaving something for those who come after. It's about embracing the unknown and finding meaning in the process itself, not just in the final result.