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Reading in major blue / Lecture en bleu majeur - Paintings
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| Dimensions | Weight |
|---|---|
23.62H x 23.62W x 0.79D in 60H x 60W x 2D cm | 2 kg 4.41 lb |
26.38H x 26.38W x 1.38D in 67H x 67W x 3.5D cm | 4 kg 8.82 lb |
26.38H x 26.38W x 1.38D in 67H x 67W x 3.5D cm | 2.5 kg 5.51 lb |
oil on canvas
Dimensions (unframed): 60 x 60 x 2 cm (23.62 x 23.62 x 0.79 in)
Framed dimensions: 67 x 67 x 3.5 cm (26.38 x 26.38 x 1.38 in)
This original oil painting on linen is by Sophie Dumont, a French contemporary artist celebrated for her abstract libraries, coastal landscapes, and poetic studio interiors. Her work, collected internationally and included in museum collections, blends vibrant chromatic fields with a refined impasto technique.
Created in 2024, Lecture en Bleu Majeur is a visual symphony of blues—deep indigo, ultramarine, sky blue—punctuated by creamy whites, ochres, and black. The vertical bands evoke the spines of books, painted in a rhythm that suggests both harmony and improvisation. The arrangement reads like a musical score, where silence and saturation alternate across the pictorial surface.
Executed entirely with a palette knife, the painting offers rich texture and light interplay. This work belongs to Dumont’s celebrated Bibliothèques abstraites series, which elevates the idea of knowledge and memory into geometric and chromatic abstraction.
Medium: Oil on linen (palette knife technique)
Support: Stretched linen canvas
Year: 2024
Signature: Signed lower right
Condition: Excellent – new and ready to hang
Framing: Black floater frame (natural wood frame available on request)
Provenance: Directly from the artist’s studio in Langrune-sur-Mer, Normandy, France
Artist: Sophie Dumont (b. 1964, Paris) – represented in private and museum collections internationally
Dimensions (unframed): 60 x 60 x 2 cm (23.62 x 23.62 x 0.79 in)
Framed dimensions: 67 x 67 x 3.5 cm (26.38 x 26.38 x 1.38 in)
This original oil painting on linen is by Sophie Dumont, a French contemporary artist celebrated for her abstract libraries, coastal landscapes, and poetic studio interiors. Her work, collected internationally and included in museum collections, blends vibrant chromatic fields with a refined impasto technique.
Created in 2024, Lecture en Bleu Majeur is a visual symphony of blues—deep indigo, ultramarine, sky blue—punctuated by creamy whites, ochres, and black. The vertical bands evoke the spines of books, painted in a rhythm that suggests both harmony and improvisation. The arrangement reads like a musical score, where silence and saturation alternate across the pictorial surface.
Executed entirely with a palette knife, the painting offers rich texture and light interplay. This work belongs to Dumont’s celebrated Bibliothèques abstraites series, which elevates the idea of knowledge and memory into geometric and chromatic abstraction.
Medium: Oil on linen (palette knife technique)
Support: Stretched linen canvas
Year: 2024
Signature: Signed lower right
Condition: Excellent – new and ready to hang
Framing: Black floater frame (natural wood frame available on request)
Provenance: Directly from the artist’s studio in Langrune-sur-Mer, Normandy, France
Artist: Sophie Dumont (b. 1964, Paris) – represented in private and museum collections internationally
Category: oil and acrylic painting
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Item Reading in major blue / Lecture en bleu majeur
Created by Sophie DUMONT.
As seen in Creator's Studio, Langrune-sur-Mer, France
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