Temps calme, 2026
Painting : oil, Knife Painting · 54 x 65 x 2 cm 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang
€3,500
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About the artwork
Type
Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist
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Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Technique & Support
oil , Knife Painting on canvas
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
54 x 65 x 2 cm 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
61 x 72 x 3.5 cm 24 x 28.3 x 1.4 inch
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Independent artist
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Description
With "Temps calme" (Calm Time), Sophie Dumont offers an abstract work marked by restraint and balance. The composition is organized in horizontal layers that structure the pictorial space without ever enclosing it, evoking an inner landscape more suggested than represented.
The deliberately restrained palette combines mineral tones, softened ochres, and muted shades that converse in silent harmony. The chromatic transitions are subtle, revealing variations in texture that enrich the surface without disrupting the overall coherence.
The manipulation of materials through successive layers inscribes time at the heart of the canvas. Some areas seem to recede while others assert themselves, reflecting a slow and deliberate process. This stratification lends the work a calm depth, inviting the viewer to prolonged contemplation.
Temps calme (Calm Time) fits perfectly within Sophie Dumont's approach, where abstraction becomes a sensitive language to evoke time, memory, and balance. A work with a discreet yet assertive presence, designed to engage in a lasting dialogue with the space that houses it.
Presentation
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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