Figurstudie og parti med bygninger, formentlig "Den Fries" udstillingsbygning, København. Desuden liste over kunstnerens malerier, formentlig både planlagte og fuldførte 1913 - 1914

This sketchbook page by J.A. Jerichau, features a jumble of notations in ink and loose watercolour washes. I love the figure at the top, hands raised like a priest, or an actor on stage. It's easy to imagine Jerichau working quickly here, making lots of trial and error. I've got so many sketchbooks like this! I know this way of making, letting something emerge through intuition and accident. The marks are thin and watery. It seems like he wanted to capture an impression of the scene. The buildings at the bottom float in a light-blue haze. Were they just something he saw from his window? Did he see something in this landscape? The list of paintings in the upper left suggests he's using this study as a kind of inventory. Artists have always borrowed, copied, and transformed each other’s work across generations. Looking at this page makes me feel connected to Jerichau's practice. It reminds me that painting is a form of embodied expression, full of ambiguity.