Pierre Soulages, “Peinture 195 x 130 cm, 30 octobre 1957” (1957), oil on canvas, 76 3/4 x 51 3/16 inches; National Gallery of Art, ... We spotlight artist-led social movements, ...

Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages was born in Rodez, in the Aveyron region of southern France, on Dec. 24, 1919. His father made horse-drawn carriages and died the year Mr. Soulages turned 5 ...

Pierre Soulages, who found infinite possibility in black abstract paintings, has died, aged 102 The celebrated French artist remained committed to his singular formal pursuit for decades Vincent Noce ...

Pierre Soulages Will Become the Latest Living Artist to Show at the Louvre This December—Just in Time for His 100th Birthday The show will look back at the many stages of his seven-decade career ...

Once called “the world’s greatest living artist,” Mr. Soulages was best known for exploring the possibilities of the color black. Skip to content Skip to site index. ... Pierre Soulages in 2019.

A year on from the death of iconic French artist Pierre Soulages, his work is celebrated in a major New York exhibition now open. Soulages, born in 1919 and dubbed “the painter of black,” died ...

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 Rodez.

On the third floor of the Pierre Soulages show currently on view at Dominique Lévy gallery, viewers will discover paintings from the 1950s and 60s. Some are small and others medium-scale. In each ...

Pierre Soulages became highly influential for his reflections of black, which he called “noir-lumiere,” or “black-light,” and was seen as France’s greatest living painter in recent years.