Studieblad met paard en drie zeemeeuwen 1891 - 1941

Leo Gestel sketched this page of studies of a horse and three seagulls with graphite on paper. The horse and seagulls are suspended between sea and sky. This drawing has a light touch, as the composition feels like it is emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with the artist and wonder what it might have been like to make this sketch. What they might have been thinking when they made it? The graphite lines are thin, giving the sketch an airy feel. The marks are light and flowing, so our eye follows the artist's hand, and we feel the movements they made across the page. The seagulls are a flurry of activity around the horse. It feels like a sketch that could have been by Picasso with its cubist fragmentation. Artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity.