Large Abstract Oil Painting, Stylized Library With Empty Shelf, 2025, Framed by Sophie Dumont

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This original oil painting on linen is by Sophie Dumont, a French contemporary artist whose stylized libraries and layered abstractions … Read more This original oil painting on linen is by Sophie Dumont, a French contemporary artist whose stylized libraries and layered abstractions are part of museum and private collections internationally. Her work explores the emotional resonance of books, silence, and rhythm through thick impasto and refined color structures.

Created in 2025, Absence Écrite presents a bold bookshelf composition structured in three horizontal rows. Deep shades of black, brown, navy, and muted red create a dense visual cadence, interrupted by a striking pale void at the center. This intentional emptiness speaks of absence, forgetting, or perhaps a page not yet written.

Painted entirely with a palette knife, the work reveals expressive textures and sculptural brushwork. It is part of Dumont’s iconic Bibliothèques abstraites series—paintings that blur the line between object and idea, between memory and material presence.

Medium: Oil on linen
Technique: Palette knife
Support: Stretched linen canvas
Year: 2025
Signature: Signed lower right
Condition: Excellent – new and ready to hang See less