Touching color. The renewal of pastel

The reason for this exhibition is not an artist or a period but a pictorial technique: pastel.

Halfway between drawing and painting, this technique experienced a boom during the eighteenth century but always below oil painting, a technique considered superior. It was in the nineteenth century when it achieved some autonomy from painting.

Pastel is traditionally associated with women artists, who found in this technique a manageable and economical medium. For the ease of its outdoor use, the impressionists also used it.

The exhibition includes almost 100 works by 68 international artists: Eugène Boudin, Odilon Redon, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, María Blanchard, Alfred Sisley, Eugène Delacroix, André Masson and Claude Monet among others.