Man met gesloten ogen c. 1930 - 1938

Here we have Carel Adolph Lion Cachet’s drawing, probably made with ink on paper. I love the immediacy of this piece; it feels like the artist was trying to capture a fleeting moment, something almost dreamlike. The man’s eyes are closed, and Cachet uses a minimal, almost shorthand approach to rendering his features. See how the lines are confident but not overworked? It's like he's letting the essence of the subject emerge through the act of drawing. I’m especially drawn to the way the lines around the hands and the object in his mouth are rendered. There's a beautiful ambiguity there, a sense of something being suggested rather than explicitly defined. The blank space around the figure is just as important as the lines themselves. It reminds me a bit of Matisse’s line drawings – simple, elegant, and full of life. It's a reminder that art doesn't always need to be loud to be profound.