Pierre Soulages
Pierre Soulages
1919 - 2022
Peinture 81 x 60 cm, 2 mai 1957. 1957.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. Signed and dated, as well as inscribed “ARIEL” and “1507” in handwriting, on the stretcher. 81 x 60 cm (31.8 x 23.6 in).
• An outstanding, powerful composition from his early, pioneering years.
• Surface and light reflection: essential means of expression for Pierre Soulages, the inventor of “Outrenoir,” as early as 1954.
• From the pivotal period of his international breakthrough.
• The artist was represented at documenta 1, II, and III in 1955, 1959, and 1964.
• Comparable compositions from the 1950s are held in the most important international collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Tate in London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Folkwang Museum, Essen.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany.
Swiss collection (2012, Ketterer Kunst).
EXHIBITION: Galerie de France, Paris, 1957.
LITERATURE: Pierre Encrevé, Soulages. L'œuvre complet. Peintures, 2, 1959–1978, Seuil, Paris 1995, CR no. 300 (with color illustration).
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Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Auction 393, Postwar/Contemporary Art, September 6, 2012, lot 219 (with color illustration).
Pierre Soulages
1919 - 2022
Peinture 81 x 60 cm, 2 mai 1957. 1957.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. Signed and dated, as well as inscribed “ARIEL” and “1507” in handwriting, on the stretcher. 81 x 60 cm (31.8 x 23.6 in).
• An outstanding, powerful composition from his early, pioneering years.
• Surface and light reflection: essential means of expression for Pierre Soulages, the inventor of “Outrenoir,” as early as 1954.
• From the pivotal period of his international breakthrough.
• The artist was represented at documenta 1, II, and III in 1955, 1959, and 1964.
• Comparable compositions from the 1950s are held in the most important international collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Tate in London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Folkwang Museum, Essen.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany.
Swiss collection (2012, Ketterer Kunst).
EXHIBITION: Galerie de France, Paris, 1957.
LITERATURE: Pierre Encrevé, Soulages. L'œuvre complet. Peintures, 2, 1959–1978, Seuil, Paris 1995, CR no. 300 (with color illustration).
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Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Auction 393, Postwar/Contemporary Art, September 6, 2012, lot 219 (with color illustration).
