Liggende pige i chemise. "La petite Rousse" 1929

Jules Pascin made this drawing, Liggende pige i chemise. "La petite Rousse" (Reclining Girl in Chemise. "La petite Rousse"), with pencil on paper. Isn't it gorgeous? It's like a whisper of a drawing. I imagine Pascin, with his pencil, circling, feeling his way around the form of this young woman. The model becomes a kind of landscape. The woman’s pose, so relaxed and open, feels like the essence of vulnerability. What was Pascin thinking? Was he in love with her? Or was he just trying to capture a certain light, a certain mood? Maybe both, maybe neither! And that's the beauty of it, right? The ambiguity. Pascin isn't trying to give us all the answers. He's inviting us to dream and to imagine. I think we should. Artists are always having this ongoing conversation, this exchange of ideas across time. We are all inspiring each other's creativity.