Staande figuur met een opgeheven arm 1892 - 1913

Bramine Hubrecht made this drawing called "Standing figure with a raised arm" with pencil. It looks like she was working out an idea, like sketching in thought. Imagine her there with her stick of graphite and the paper absorbing each mark. A gesture emerges on the page, quick and light, like catching a fleeting thought. It’s a figure, but almost like a ghost, captured in just a few lines. What does it mean to raise your arm? Is she reaching? Or maybe surrendering? It reminds me of some of Cy Twombly's looser drawings; a kind of visual shorthand. It feels like a puzzle, a little fragment of an idea. And it’s cool because we get to be part of her thought process. It is like she is asking us, what do you see?