This catalog, published on the occasion of the Touching color. The renewal of pastel exhibition, examines the rebirth of the pastel technique that took place in the 19th and 20th centuries, from an international perspective, and analyzes the reasons why leading artistic figures transformed it into an art form in its own right. Artists such as Eugène Boudin, Odilon Redon, Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet are among those who, embracing this technique, conferred upon it an innovative status through the use of pastel sticks. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, pastel maintained this new status, embodying the rupture of languages that the next generation would usher in with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, María Blanchard and Theo van Doesburg, to name a few.
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