Onderlichaam, voeten en een rok 1874 - 1945

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this drawing, Onderlichaam, voeten en een rok, with pencil on paper. These are the searching marks of a person trying to find something. You know, trying to find the feeling of standing, or maybe kneeling. There’s such a tenderness in the quick, almost unsure strokes, as if the artist is thinking through his hand. I can almost feel Cachet there in the studio, or maybe he’s outside. I wonder what he's looking at. Is it his lover, or a model? I like how these figures are both present and absent, there but not quite formed. It makes me wonder what it is to see, what it is to make something from the seen world. That wobble, that uncertainty in his hand reminds me of other artists like Guston, who draw like they are thinking. Artists are always looking at other artists, responding, and making something new.