Salon du dessin 2024

Zeit Contemporary Art is honored to participate once again in the Salon du dessin, one of the leading international fairs dedicated to drawings and works on paper. Held at the historic Palais Brongniart in Paris, the Salon brings together more than thirty international galleries presenting works from Old Masters to modern and contemporary art. For this edition, ZCA focuses on the vitality of drawing across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Julio González, Jean Dubuffet, Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, Kiki Smith, Tom Wesselmann, Stanley Whitney, and Nelo Vinuesa.

The presentation traces drawing as a space of invention, intimacy, and structural thought. Works by Picasso, Miró, and González show its central role in modern artistic language, from Picasso’s wartime studies of the reclining body to Miró’s lyrical signs and González’s exploration of figure, volume, and sculptural space. Warhol’s 1950s drawings reveal a private, emotionally direct side of the artist before Pop Art, while Dubuffet’s ink and collage work extends drawing into raw gesture, anti-academic freedom, and psychic intensity.

A further group expands drawing into abstraction, the body, and contemporary practice. LeWitt’s gouaches transform line into rhythm, variation, and conceptual structure, while Whitney’s monotype brings color and grid into a compact, musical register. Smith and Wesselmann approach the body through vulnerability, sensuality, and graphic compression, and Vinuesa’s recent works on paper open a dialogue between color, gesture, and emotional landscape. In resonance with the Salon’s 2024 guests of honor, the Fondation Dubuffet and the Tavolozza Foundation, ZCA’s presentation reflects drawing as both historical foundation and living medium.