Pierre Soulages

Far beyond the borders of France, the artistic work of Pierre Soulages is regarded as unique in the rigorous radicalism with which he has devoted himself, almost exclusively, to the colour black. Born in 1919, he has been producing work of an international reputation for more than seven decades.As early as the 1940s, Soulages was painting and etching in an abstract gestural manner, maintaining a great passion for a palette almost exclusively focused on black. Later, he began to devote himself to printmaking as well as painting.Text in English and German.