Løse rids af komposition efter Gauguins Nøgen bretonsk dreng, 1889 samt iagttagelser gjort efter malerier af bl.a. Cezanne, Gauguin og Pissaro på impressionistudstillingen i Kunstforeningen, København, april 1911 1910 - 1911

Here we have J.A. Jerichau's sketch from 1911, made with pencil in a notebook, a loose study after Gauguin, Cezanne and Pissaro. You can feel the artist working through ideas, a kind of visual note-taking. The lines are so raw and immediate, they capture a fleeting thought. I love that the paper is graph - it is a reminder that so many artistic investigations happen in the most humble of places! Look at the way Jerichau outlines the figure with a few, very gestural marks. The hatching around the figure almost makes it feel like it is emerging from the page. The horizontals underneath the figure suggest a sense of gravity or grounding. This makes me think of Marsden Hartley's drawings after Cezanne, both artists using the masters as a springboard for their own investigations. It's like overhearing a conversation between artists across time - a beautiful reminder that art is always in dialogue with what came before.