Pages triptyque, 2025

The artwork(Pages triptyque by Sophie Dumont)is available for pickup at BelArt Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, or it can be delivered to the address of your choice within 2 to 3 weeks after your order is confirmed. The artwork is insured during transportation, so there’s no risk. Origin: Belgium.

Triptych, oil on canvas, 3 panels of 120 x 40 cm (i.e. 120 x 120 cm framed)
Panel titles: Sweetness of the Pages – Written Memory – Intimate Library
Frame: natural or black wood

Sophie Dumont, a renowned artist whose works are featured in international collections and exhibited in galleries and institutions, offers a pictorial meditation on the silent presence of books. This triptych, composed of three vertical canvases, is a continuation of her work on libraries, renewing their visual grammar with a refined and almost meditative approach.

Each panel stands independently, yet interacts closely with the other two. (left) explores a limited palette of whites and beiges, where the volumes of the books are suggested rather than described. The arrangement seems suspended in a timeless space, where matter itself becomes language.

In the center, more pronounced nuances are introduced—ochres, blacks, deep earths—which further structure the composition. This more marked chromatic presence acts as a visual and symbolic hinge of the triptych, evoking the trace, the imprint, what remains of the act of reading or writing.

Finally, (right) returns to a form of visual withdrawal: the muted tones and muted contrasts give the surface a muted, almost erased texture. The eye guesses the shapes more than it reads them, as if the works had melted into their own silence.

Dumont’s technique, worked with a knife in multiple layers, reveals subtle reliefs and assumed irregularities, like so many metaphors for a non-linear memory. The triptych as a whole questions less the content of the books than their existence as objects bearing presence and time.

does not tell a story, but offers a visual breath, a form of attention to what remains discreet. The work invites a slow reading, both sensory and mental, where each panel becomes the reflection of a singular relationship to knowledge, intimacy and erasure.

Choice of frame color: black or natural wood.