The 2025 edition
of the Salon du Dessin
Guest of honour:
The musée des beaux-Arts de Reims
As part of its renovation and extension work entrusted to the Portuguese agency Aires Mateus, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Reims continued to programme exhibitions outside its walls during its closure, showcasing its collections in Reims, more broadly in France and abroad. Alongside painting and sculpture, graphic arts are the ambassadors of its collections. Before the museum reopens at the end of 2026, the invitation of honour extended to the 33rd edition of the Salon du Dessin in Paris will provide an opportunity to showcase this wealth of art.
For this very special occasion, a select choice has been made to present both exceptional, well-identified sheets and others that are less well known, but directly linked to the identity of the future museum. This is a way of symbolically evoking a permanent exhibition that has been redesigned to cover more than 3,200 m2, representing a journey through five centuries of French and European art, from the Renaissance to Art Deco, including Grand Siècle painting, landscape painting, the Grand Jeu and Surrealism, and the unclassifiable work of Léonard Foujita.
Among the 46 drawings selected for this event, visitors to the Salon du Dessin were able to discover the incredible series of thirteen portraits by Lucas Cranach the Younger, works by Simon Vouet, Charles Le Brun, Robert Nanteuil, Jean-François Millet, Paul Jouve, Jean Goulden, Maurice Henry, Maria-Helena Vieira Da Silva and Léonard Foujita. Covering ancient, modern and contemporary art, all these drawings were worthy representatives of a collection comprising more than 15,000 items, some of which are already available online on the Reims museums’ website.
The Tavolozza Foundation
Working on the road and en plein air:
Travel drawings from the Katrin Bellinger Collection
At the 2025 Salon du dessin, the Katrin Bellinger Collection presented a selection of drawings and watercolours on the theme of travel, on the occasion of the 18th International Symposium of the Salon du dessin, ‘Travelling Artists: Forms and Functions of Travel Drawing’.
The exhibition built on the success of the recent exhibition Connecting Worlds: Artists & Travel – a collaboration with the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (8 July – 8 October 2023).
Whether sketchbook pages or finished drawings given as gifts, the selected works presented a variety of approaches to the experience, recording and memory of travel.
Offering a glimpse into this ever-expanding private collection, the exhibition included first-rate examples by Lambert Doomer (1624–1700), Hubert Robert (1733–1808), and Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), among others.
The 18th Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation’s Contemporary Drawing Prize
The artists nominated for the 18th edition of the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation Contemporary Drawing Prize were announced on 12 December 2024:
- Gideon Kiefer, Belgian artist born in 1970
- Alice Maher, Irish artist born in 1956
- Ettore Tripodi, Italian artist born in 1985
The winner of the 2025 edition, Alice Maher is an Irish artist born in 1956, a graduate of the University of Belfast and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her first exhibitions began in 1995, and she represented Ireland at the 22nd São Paulo Biennial.
Her work features in prestigious institutional collections: the Dublin Irish Museum of Modern Art, the London Contemporary Art Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, as well as in the collection of Florence and Daniel Guerlain.
She is represented by the David Nohan Gallery in New York, the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin and the Purdy Hicks Gallery in London.
The exhibitors’ stands
at the 2025 Salon du dessin
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