Édouard Pignon : Les Estampes, Catalogue Raisonné

Exhibition at the Musée du dessin et de l'estampe originale, Gravelines, 10 July - 23 December 2022

A key figure in the debate that agitated the art scene from the post-war period to the 1980s, Édouard Pignon (1905-1993) is also an undisputed master of engraving and, more generally, of printmaking, where his technical virtuosity is the fruit of fifty years of work that parallels his production.

More than forty years after the inventory of the illustrated corpus of the engraved work, established and published in 1981 on the occasion of the exhibition at the Musée-Galerie de la Seita in Paris, this catalogue raisonné of Édouard Pignon's prints - augmented by a few later creations and, above all, by numerous unlisted plates - accompanies the exhibition at the Musée de Gravelines.

The work reveals the important donation of one hundred and thirty-nine engravings and lithographs made in 2021 by Nicolas Pignon, the artist's son, to the only institution in France devoted solely to these techniques, thus filling a scientific void.