The checkerboard pattern, an emblematic motif within Andrée Putman’s aesthetic vocabulary, unfolds here in a fragmented composition, almost in motion. The lines break apart and the rhythms shift, creating a sense of visual vibration that animates the space. At the heart of this graphic rigor appear yellow and blue “accidents.” These unexpected and carefully placed touches of color disrupt the monochrome balance of the checkerboard, like luminous bursts within an otherwise perfectly controlled composition. Between order and disruption, geometry and spontaneity, Constellation au carré reveals the full modernity of Andrée Putman’s work, where the precision of the drawing always leaves room for a form of sensitive freedom.