Studieblad met koeien, een hand en een figuur c. 1930

This sketch of cows, a hand, and a figure by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet feels like a peek into the artist’s notebook, a space for exploring ideas. It makes me think of artists sketching in cafes, capturing fleeting impressions with simple lines. Look at these quick, confident strokes. You can almost feel the pen moving across the paper, trying to catch the essence of each form. I can imagine him, squinting to see, capturing a bunch of cows, maybe in a field. Are they resting, eating, or just hanging out? These aren’t polished portraits, but rather raw, immediate responses to the world. I love seeing a sketch like this because it reminds me that art is often about process, about the joy of seeing and marking, not just about the finished product. All these artists are having this conversation across time and space with each other, riffing on ways of seeing and being, which is maybe the real work of art.