A journey through the collection of historical, modern, and contemporary drawings of producer and filmmaker Marin Karmitz.
This catalogue brings together more than 150 drawings from the Karmitz collection. Through works by artists historical (Théodore Géricault, Victor Hugo), modern (
Otto Dix,
Alberto Giacometti), and contemporary (
Paula Rego,
Annette Messager), the selection highlights the tension between the life and death drives running throughout the collection, wherein the human body is relentlessly confronted with the eternal return
of the many causes of its finitude.
The catalogue is accompanied by a booklet, bringing together all the engravings from the
Los Desastres de la guerra series by Francisco de Goya, conceived as a first extension of this printed archive.
Featuring
Christian Boltanski,
Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Vincenzo Camuccini, Camille Corot, Henry Darger, Damien Daufresne, Jean Delville,
Otto Dix,
Jean Dubuffet,
Bernard Dufour,
Jean Fautrier, Lucian Freud, Vincenzo Gemito, Théodore Géricault,
Alberto Giacometti, Leon Golub,
Beatriz González, Julio González, Francisco de Goya, George Grosz, Le Guerchin,
Elika Hedayat, Ferdinand Hodler, Victor Hugo, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,
Tadeusz Kantor, Eugène Leroy, Man Ray, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Maryan S. Maryan, André Masson,
Annette Messager, Joan Miró, Óscar Muñoz, Ernest Pignon-Ernest,
Arnulf Rainer,
Paula Rego, Riss, Auguste Rodin,
Oskar Schlemmer, Louis Soutter, Nancy Spero, Léon Spilliaert, Alina Szapocznikow, Yves Tanguy,
Tomi Ungerer, Félix Vallotton,
Andy Warhol.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition as part of the Arles Drawing Festival, from April 18 to May 17, 2026.
