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Summer 2025 Exhibition
Trois Crayons will return to Frieze at No.9 Cork Street in the summer of 2025, open to the public from 26th June to 5th July.
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Newsletter of the month
See inside for Our April Round UP
Following a busy month for the Old Master drawings market which included the major art fairs of TEFAF in Maastricht and the Salon du Dessin in Paris, bolstered by the wider Semaine du Dessin, this month’s newsletter takes a decidedly more modern turn. After the news and events sections, Henri Michaux, the Courtauld Gallery, and the experimental mescaline drawings of the 1950s take centre stage, with insights from Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, Ketty Gottardo, and Linda Karshan. The customary selection of literary, visual, and audio highlights is followed, as ever, by the ‘Real or Fake’ section. -
Trois Crayons
Trois Crayons celebrates the art of drawing from the 15th to the 21st century. From in-person exhibitions and collaborative events to our monthly newsletter and social media activity, we connect the global drawings community.
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‘Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings’, a Q&A with Dr Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings at the Courtauld Gallery
For our 19th drawing of the month, Linda Karshan, artist and collector, reflects on a highly personal drawing, a gift to the Courtauld Gallery in memory of her husband, Howard Karshan, and a highlight of the current exhibition, Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings.
‘Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850’ with Edina Adam and Jamie Gabbarelli.
Dr Axel Moulinier, collaborator on A Watteau Abecedario, catalogue raisonné of the paintings by Antoine Watteau, under the supervision of Pr. Emeritus Martin Eidelberg, has kindly chosen our eighteenth drawing of the month.
An introduction to ‘The Drawing Foundation’ with Allison Wucher, Simon Levenson and Daniella Berman.
Dr Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, has kindly chosen our seventeenth drawing of the month.
Martin Clayton, Head of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection Trust, has kindly chosen our UK drawing of the month.
Dr Rachel Hapoienu, Assistant Curator of Works on Paper at the Courtauld Gallery, London, has kindly chosen our sixteenth drawing of the month.
Nigel Ip (Print Quarterly), reviews ‘Drawing the Italian Renaissance’ at The King’s Gallery, London.
‘The Italian Baroque Drawings of the Städel Museum’ with Drs Astrid Reuter and Stefania Girometti.
Juliet Carey, Senior Curator at Senior Curator at Waddesdon Manor (National Trust / Rothschild Foundation), has kindly chosen our fifteenth drawing of the month.
Nigel Ip (Print Quarterly), reviews ‘Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504’ at The Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Elania Pieragostini, Senior Curator of the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, has kindly chosen our fourteenth drawing of the month.
About us

Trois Crayons was founded by Alesa Boyle, Tom Nevile and Sebastien Paraskevas with the aim of increasing the awareness, accessibility, and visibility of drawings in all their forms.
Trois Crayons offers a centralising space for all drawing-related activity worldwide, to facilitate and encourage engagement with the historic “father” of the arts. From in-person exhibitions and collaborative events to our monthly newsletter and social media activity, we connect the global drawings community.
The name, Trois Crayons, derives from the French term meaning “three crayons”, a drawing technique using black, white and red chalks which rose to prominence in mid-18th century France and has a particular aesthetic appeal when used in combination.
The art of drawing has a rich and fascinating history which is ever relevant to the present moment. In the words of Vincent van Gogh, “drawing is the root of everything”. To Giorgio Vasari, the 16th century biographer, artist and art historian, drawing (disegno) was both an intellectual and practical process, it was the father to the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture and fundamental to all creative processes.
Trois Crayons champions this primacy of drawing and simplifies access for the digital generation to all the disparate elements that make up today’s world of drawing.
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