Kop van een meisje met krullend haar 1905 - 1906

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this drawing of a girl's head with pencil on paper. Look at this little girl's face, captured in pencil. The tentative lines! You can almost feel the artist trying to figure out her curls, erasing and redrawing, searching for the right form. I imagine Cachet sitting with his sketchbook, trying to get her just right, the soft graphite smudging under his fingers, each mark building up a sense of her presence. You can see the ghost of previous attempts, those lines that didn't quite make the cut but still linger, adding to the drawing's depth. It reminds me of other artists like Klimt and Schiele who were also obsessed with capturing the human form in all its messy glory. There's a beautiful intimacy in this piece, like a secret shared between the artist and the sitter, the sketch a kind of love letter to the beauty of the everyday. It’s a reminder that art isn't always about perfection, but about the process of seeing and feeling.