Untitled [seated woman in a dress] 1955 - 1967

Richard Diebenkorn created this untitled drawing of a seated woman in a dress using pencil on paper. Look at the layering of those lines, like he’s feeling around the form, trying to trap it on the page. You can almost feel him thinking, correcting, thinking again. It's not about getting it "right," it's about the journey, the exploration. I wonder what he was thinking about while he was drawing. Was he looking at the model, or was he drawing from memory, from a dream? I bet he was in a dialogue with Matisse; you know Diebenkorn had a way of distilling something essential about form and space, just like him. I think that as artists, we are always in conversation with one another, across time and space, responding to each other's ideas, inspiring each other’s creative practice. And for us, the viewers, this openness is an invitation to engage with this piece, to bring our own experiences and interpretations to the mix.