This year, the Drawing section is asserting its identity.

Technical mastery is the primary criterion for selection, highlighting the purity of the pencil stroke and the powerful symbolism of form. This approach emphasizes the expressive power of the medium, revealing the richness of an art form in which every line tells a story.

The new artistic direction reflects our desire to return to the very essence of drawing, when line, form, and gesture are enough to express the full power of a work.

Pencil, charcoal, pen, pastel, Indian ink...

Each technique will reveal its full richness, through subtle textures or more marked contrasts: from radical black and white to nuanced color, from free and instinctive lines to elaborate compositions, from realistic expression to abstract language, this edition will welcome artists who, by pushing the boundaries of drawing, reaffirm its fundamental place in contemporary creation.

The Drawing section of the 2025 Salon d'Automne celebrates this discipline in its most essential form: an art of the eye and the hand, where modeling and contours sculpt thought and emotion.

For "drawing is not the form, it is the way of seeing the form."
– Edgar Degas