Kompositionstudie med farvenotater 1912

This is J.A. Jerichau's "Kompositionstudie med farvenotater," a composition study with color notes, done with ink on paper. It's like a quick thought, a doodle almost, but it has all these little notes scrawled around the figures. It's like Jerichau is thinking out loud, trying to capture a fleeting idea before it vanishes. What strikes me is how raw it feels. The lines are so immediate, so unpolished. You can almost feel the artist’s hand moving across the page. And those color notes! "Orange brome" one says, and others in German. It's as if the artist is trying to pin down the colors they see in their mind’s eye. It reminds me of Matisse, the way he used line to capture the essence of a form. But Jerichau is doing it with this added layer of personal reflection, like a peek inside their creative process. It's not about perfection, it's about the messy, beautiful act of trying to make something new.