La clarté des livres, 2026
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Painting : oil, Knife Painting · 50 x 50 x 2 cm 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang

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Painting : Unique artwork

Condition

Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang

with stretcher frame

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50 x 50 x 2 cm 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth

Artwork dimensions including frame

57 x 57 x 3.5 cm 22.4 x 22.4 x 1.4 inch

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In The Clarity of Books, Sophie Dumont continues her exploration of the library as architecture of memory and silence. The books, reduced to irregular vertical forms, are organized into several compartments whose proportions and rhythms differ subtly.

The light palette combines off-white, ivory, beige, and bluish-gray with a few deeper accents of midnight blue, brown, and black. These contrasts punctuate the composition and give depth to a work dominated by light.

Executed in oil by successive layers, the canvas reveals a rich material: knife marks, scrapes, superimpositions, and imperfect outlines give the books an almost tactile presence. The library thus becomes a mental space, evoking knowledge, memory, and accumulated time.

Original and unique work, signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Ready to be hung.

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Still Life

Library

Literature

Material

Books

Beige

Sky blue

Sophie Dumont, La clarté des livres

Sophie Dumont

France  • 1964
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Born in 1964 in Suresnes, near Paris, Sophie Dumont lives and works in Langrune-sur-Mer, in Normandy. Self-taught, she began to paint in 1991 and develops research focused on matter, color, and the construction of space.

Her work unfolds in several series: libraries, abstract landscapes, studios, and geometric compositions gathered under the title Interior Architectures. These ensembles explore the relationships between memory, structure, and human presence. Books become rhythms and volumes; landscapes transform into expanses of color; studios retain the signs of activity and passage. In her geometric compositions, curves and rectangles organize a space where forms can evoke an architecture, an instrument, or a silhouette without fixing themselves in a single representation.

Sophie Dumont works mainly with oil on canvas, palette knife, and brush. The painting is built slowly, through successive layers, superimpositions, scrapes, and erasures. Earlier states remain perceptible and contribute to the depth of the work. The geometry of the compositions thus dialogues with a surface marked by gesture and time.

From one series to the next, her approach maintains this same tension between construction and matter, between what appears and what remains hidden. Her works are shown in France and internationally and are featured in private collections around the world.

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