Ontwerpen voor stoelen en een schouw 1908

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this sketch of chairs and a fireplace probably with graphite on paper. Look at these lines! You know, when you see an artist working something out on paper like this, you are seeing them think. Every line is a question, a possibility, like, how high should the back of this chair be? The artist has put various iterations down for us to see. It feels so personal, and I wonder what Cachet was like. Was he fussy, precise, or did he just fling himself at the paper? It reminds me of Matisse and his need to draw and redraw to discover the essence of a thing. I love that an artist's practice allows this sort of conversation across time.