Pierre Soulages

In 2014 François Hollande described him as the worlds greatest. He created complex textures on canvases flooded with black combining areas of smoothness.

Pierre Soulages Celebrated French Post War Abstract Artist Who Strove To Go Beyond Black Obituary

Le célèbre peintre aveyronnais sest éteint au CHU de Nîmes ce mardi 25 octobre vers 23 heures.

. 24 December 1919 26 October 2022 was a French painter printmaker and sculptor. Pierre Soulages has gained international recognition as a prominent figure of both art informel which arose in France during World War II and abstract expressionism its American. Pierre Soulages the French abstract painter best known for experimenting with different shades of black has died aged 102 the museum dedicated to his life and work in his. De ses toiles sombres ténébreuses il faisait jaillir la lumière.

Pierre Soulages mort le 26 octobre à 102 ans avait découvert le noir à 5 ans à la mort de son père. Now the artist who is one of the most influential abstract painters of the 20th. Pierre Soulages was born in Rodez France in 1919. Pierre Soulages est décédé à lâge de 102 ans.

Known as the painter of black and light Pierre Soulages was born in 1919 in Rodez in the South of France. The French painter Pierre Soulages has been exploring the color black for more than 60 years. Pierre Soulages is the last great living painter to have been involved at the beginning of Art Informel the post-war movement which encompassed Tachisme Abstraction. As a child he regularly visited the Musée Fenaille an archaeological museum that awakened within him a fascination with.

Pierre Soulages is considered a major figure of post-war European abstraction alongside Hans. For him there was just one colour black and he spent a lifetime exploring the light. On le croyait un peu immortel ce. As a child he was fascinated by the Celtic carvings prehistoric cave art and.

Pierre Soulages with one of his works at the Pompidou Centre in Paris 2009. Peinture 92 x 65 cm 3 aout 1954 1954. Painting 202 x 143 cm 21 Dec. French abstract artist Pierre Soulages who has died aged 102 was the Henry Ford of painting.

Pierre Soulages is a French artist whose thick black brushstrokeslabeled outrenoir beyond blackagainst lighter backgrounds have characterized his painting and printmaking practice. Peinture 263 x 181 cm 2 juillet 2012 tripych 2012. Un hommage national sera rendu au peintre Pierre Soulages mercredi 2 novembre dans la cour carrée du Louvre à Paris une semaine après son décès à lâge de 102 ans. 64 Born in a small city in southern France Pierre Soulages was deeply influenced by the works of Cézanne and Picasso during a brief sojourn in Paris which.

French painter Pierre Soulages an icon of post-World War II European abstract art famed for his use of black has died according to the Soulages Museum in his hometown of.