
Pierre Soulages: Paintings on Paper will feature more than twenty of the French artist’s works on paper, the majority of which have never been exhibited before. We are honored to collaborate on this presentation with the artist’s widow, Colette Soulages, to reveal the importance of the medium to Pierre Soulages’s groundbreaking oeuvre.
Known as ‘the painter of black and light,’ Pierre Soulages has forged a career remarkable not only for its rigorous invention, but for its longevity. Since the postwar period, the artist has worked predominantly with the colour black, creating canvases which might recall nocturnal landscapes or charred earth. Rather than adhering to such movements as Abstract Expressionism, tachism, and Informel, Soulages contextualises his paintings in terms of vitalism, classicism, and prehistoric forms. Since 1979, he has pursued his series Outrenoir, whose title is a portmanteau Soulages defines as ‘beyond black.’ With these scraped and slicked tar–like surfaces, he transforms the spatial and temporal dimensions of painting.



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