Kompositionsudkast til bl.a. maleriet "Den blinde ved vejen råber efter Kristus", 1910 1909 - 1910

This is a compositional sketch made around 1910 by Niels Larsen Stevns, a peek into the artist’s thought process for his painting, “The Blind Man by the Road Cries Out to Christ.” The page is a landscape of ideas, various biblical scenes sketched in graphite. Stevns isn't precious here; it's all about the raw, immediate gesture. The lines are scratchy and searching, like he’s feeling his way through the story. Look at the bottom left scene, the crowd under the trees—the figures are these quick, almost scribbled marks, but they convey the weight of the multitude. There’s a real physicality to the marks on this page, an honesty. It reminds you that art is a conversation, each mark building on the last, and on those that came before. Think of someone like Emil Nolde, who shared Stevns' interest in biblical scenes, and who was exploring similar modes of expression around the same time. Each artist, in their own way, adding to the ongoing dialogue of art.