Tracing Time, Summer 2025 Exhibition

Frieze, No.9 Cork Street, London W1S 3LL
26 June – 5 July 2025
Weekdays 10:00 – 18:00
Weekends 11:00 – 17:00
Free Entry

Opening Reception (Vernissage)
25 June 2025
18.00 –21.00
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Tracing Time Events Programme

The Trois Crayons Talks & Events Programme returns this summer with an expanded series of public events. All talks and tours are free to attend and bring together leading voices from across the world of Old Master drawings.

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trois crayons museum forum

We are delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of the Trois Crayons Museum Forum, an innovative digital platform dedicated to the discussion and identification of Pre-Modern drawings in public collections. Launching in the summer of 2025, this international subject specialist network will foster collaboration between curators, scholars, art dealers, and the wider public.

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Newsletter of the month

Greetings from Trois Crayons HQ where we are busy readying for our second annual exhibition, Tracing Time, which returns to No.9 Cork Street from June 26 to July 5. Read on for details, preview highlights, and a taster of the events programme which will be available for registration on Friday.
Regular newsletter service resumes with a round-up of this month’s leading news stories, upcoming events and exhibitions listings, a ‘Drawing of the Month’ from the Clark Art Institute, provided by William Satloff, and the customary selection of literary and audio highlights, which is followed, as ever, by the ‘Real or Fake’ section.

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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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Newsletter

June 2025

Real or Fake #21

Test your inner connoisseur.

Drawing of the Month #21

William Satloff, former Graduate Curatorial Intern at the Clark Art Institute, has kindly chosen our 21st drawing of the month.

Resources & Recommendations #21

To Listen · To Watch · To Read

MAY 2025

Reviews #20

Laura Staccoli, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Warwick, reviews ‘The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making’ on view at The National Gallery, London until 6 July 2025.

Real or Fake #20

Test your inner connoisseur.

Resources & Recommendations #20

To Listen · To Watch · To Read

Drawing of the Month #20

Christof Metzger, curator for German and Austrian Art until 1760 at the Albertina, Vienna, has kindly chosen our 20th Drawing of the Month.

APRIL 2025

Demystifying Drawings #19

‘Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings’, a Q&A with Dr Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings at the Courtauld Gallery

Drawing of the Month #19

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’.

Real or Fake #19

Test your inner connoisseur.

March 2025

Demystifying Drawings #18

‘Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850’ with Edina Adam and Jamie Gabbarelli.

Drawing of the Month #18

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.

Real or Fake #18

Test your inner connoisseur.

Resources & Recommendations #18

To Listen · To Watch · To Read

February 2025

Real or Fake #17

Test your inner connoisseur.

Demystifying Drawings #17

An introduction to ‘The Drawing Foundation’ with Allison Wucher, Simon Levenson and Daniella Berman.

Drawing of the Month #17 (US)

Dr Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, has kindly chosen our seventeenth drawing of the month.

Resources & Recommendations #17

To Listen · To Watch · To Read

Drawing of the Month #17 (UK)

Martin Clayton, Head of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection Trust, has kindly chosen our UK drawing of the month.

January 2025

Drawing of the Month #16

Dr Rachel Hapoienu, Assistant Curator of Works on Paper at the Courtauld Gallery, London, has kindly chosen our sixteenth drawing of the month.

Reviews #16

Nigel Ip (Print Quarterly), reviews ‘Drawing the Italian Renaissance’ at The King’s Gallery, London.

Demystifying Drawings #16

‘The Italian Baroque Drawings of the Städel Museum’ with Drs Astrid Reuter and Stefania Girometti.

Real or Fake #16

Test your inner connoisseur.

Resources & Recommendations #16

To Listen · To Watch · To Read

Detailed drawing of lemons, representing the Trois Crayons story and technique

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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