Untitled [nude with her right hand at her pubis] 1955 - 1967

Richard Diebenkorn made this untitled nude with ink on paper, sometime in the mid-twentieth century. The thin lines, drawn with a confident hand, create a sense of immediacy, like a fleeting glimpse of the model's form. It's all about gesture, about capturing the essence of the figure with a kind of joyful economy. The texture of the paper peeks through, giving the drawing a raw, almost vulnerable quality. The lines are dark and decisive, but they never quite fully describe the figure. There's a deliberate ambiguity at play. Look at the area around the hand and the pubis. See how the lines almost tangle, creating a focal point that is both revealing and concealing. Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series comes to mind, where geometric shapes and blocks of color intersect and overlap, creating a sense of depth and space. Both are an exploration of form and composition, where the process is just as important as the final image. It's about seeing, feeling, and translating that into a visual language that invites us to look closer, to question, and to find our own meaning.