Abklatsch van de krijttekening op blad 8 verso 1875 - 1934

Isaac Israels made this print, "Abklatsch van de krijttekening op blad 8 verso," using a printing technique to transfer a chalk drawing onto paper. It's all about process, right? Like, what happens *between* things, the accidental beauty of a copy. The image is soft, almost like a memory fading. You can see the texture of the chalk, how it's lifted from the original and left this ghostly impression. It's not about precision but capturing the essence of the drawing. Look at the way the tones shift, from denser clusters to these delicate, powdery areas. It reminds me of some of Rauschenberg's experiments with transfer, this idea of the artwork as a record of an action, a trace of something else. What is the relationship of a print to the original drawing? Is it a copy? A new original? It invites us to think about art as an ongoing conversation, where meaning is always shifting.