Since the Drawing section expanded its artistic scope to watercolor painting in 2022, each new edition celebrates the combination of individual expressions and intimate visions, creating a dynamic pictorial composition rich in diversity and fraternity, values dear to the artists’ society of the Salon d’Automne.

With the precise or diffuse strokes of the pencil, the deep shadows of charcoal, the powdery softness of pastel, the unmatched fluidity of ink, the subtle transparency of watercolor, and the vibrant colors of acrylic or gouache, a unique and singular harmony is played out on the walls of the Section, to the rhythm of powerful chords.

Art is a visual symphony that transcends eras and borders. It is pure melody.

A universal language that captures the essence of the world and the human soul, transforming the mundane into the sublime and the fleeting into the eternal, art composes, gathers, and unites.

“To accomplish itself, it must work where all are one. And when it gives this one away, then a boundless wealth comes to all.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Notes on the melody of things.

To discover the artists in this section, visit the virtual exhibition