Man die een krant leest c. 1930 - 1938

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made "Man reading a newspaper" with pen in ink. Just look at that hand holding the paper, it's so delicate, so light. I imagine Cachet quickly laying down these lines, trying to capture a fleeting moment, a sense of modern life unfolding, maybe on a train? There are hands, faces, a figure with a newspaper… It reminds me of a Matisse drawing. I can almost hear the scratching of the pen on paper. The artist is capturing something so ephemeral, the concentration of reading. And the other almost ghost-like figures—are they floating in the ether, or maybe just passers-by? I love how he's playing with perception here, allowing the figures to emerge and recede. When we make art, we think we’re alone, but we’re never really alone—we’re always talking to each other across time.