Zittende figuur 1878 - 1938

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst made this drawing of a seated figure with pencil on paper. It's a kind of delicate, searching image. You can almost see him feeling his way around the form, line by line. I imagine him, in his studio, stepping back, squinting, then moving in close again, trying to capture something elusive. It reminds me of Giacometti's drawings, that same sense of tentative searching, the figure almost dissolving into the background. See how the lines are repeated, almost like echoes, as if the artist is trying to pin down the exact contour? And then, there's the sitter themselves, poised in a moment of contemplation. What were they thinking? The artist offers us a glimpse into a fleeting moment. Ultimately, it's that shared sense of human experience that connects us across time and space.