Buste van een jongen 1906 - 1907

Here's a drawing by Willem Witsen of a boy’s head, all charcoal and maybe a touch of chalk. You know, I can almost feel Witsen working away at the page. It’s like he's feeling out the shape of the boy’s face, trying to capture something real. The charcoal lines are so expressive, like each one is a little piece of the boy's personality. He looks serious, caught in a moment of introspection. I wonder what he was thinking about? There’s a sense of intimacy here, like Witsen wasn’t just drawing a face but trying to see something deeper. It reminds me of other portraitists, like Käthe Kollwitz, who used drawing to explore human emotion. Artists are always looking, observing, and learning from each other, aren't they? It’s a continuous conversation, always evolving. And it's in this conversation that art truly comes alive.