The Pompidou's Drawing Collection lives again at the Grand Palais

The Grand Palais in Paris presents Drawings Without Limits, a major exhibition co-produced with the Centre Pompidou. It brings together over three hundred works by one hundred and twenty artists, offering a unique insight into the extraordinary collection of the Cabinet d’art graphique, one of the richest in the world, with over 35,000 drawings from the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition does not offer a chronological history of modern and contemporary drawing, but rather a sensitive journey divided into four sections - studying, narrating, tracing, and animating -in which the works interact freely, like a domino effect. Visitors are invited to discover how drawing, once an intimate and experimental practice, has progressively emancipated itself from the paper to conquer new spaces and languages: from the wall to installation, from performance to video, and even digital. A reinvention that spans the entire 20th century and reaches the present day, testifying to the vitality of a seemingly simple medium yet capable of expressing the complexity of contemporary thought. The masterpieces on display include works by Balthus, Chagall, de Kooning, Delaunay, Dubuffet, Grosz, Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse, Modigliani, and Picasso, alongside pieces by more recent artists such as Karel Appel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, William Kentridge, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Marlène Dumas, and Giuseppe Penone. The collection reveals the surprising continuity of a practice that, while evolving over time, remains the privileged locus of freedom and invention.