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Tracing Time, 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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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
Following the announcement of our summer exhibition Tracing Time, which returns to No.9 Cork Street from 26 June – 5 July, we are pleased to share another exciting development in this month’s newsletter: the launch of the forthcoming Trois Crayons Museum Forum.
Also in this issue, Christof Metzger, Curator of German and Austrian Art up to 1760 at the Albertina, Vienna, selects our Drawing of the Month, while Laura Staccoli reviews the National Gallery’s newly installed display of the lesser-seen Carracci Cartoons. Read on for a periodic escape from the world of tariffs and market gloom, with a selection of drawing world news, exhibitions, and literary, visual, and audio highlights, and, as ever, the ‘Real or Fake’ section.
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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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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.
Christof Metzger, curator for German and Austrian Art until 1760 at the Albertina, Vienna, has kindly chosen our 20th Drawing of the Month.
‘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.
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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