Pierre SOULAGES (1919-2022)
"Paint (gouache) on... Lot 9
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Pierre SOULAGES (1919-2022)
"Paint (gouache) on paper 65cm x 50", 1973
Cassel extract, vinyl
Aluminum-reinforced paper, mounted on panel
Signed lower right
Handwritten on the back by the artist - Countersigned
Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist in 1978
in the collection of Dr. Jean-Paul Levy.
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Throughout his career, Pierre Soulages
pursued a technical and formal quest
the singular quality of black to convey its "authority
its "authority, its gravity, its obviousness
radicality" that led him to develop his famous
his famous outrenoir.
This long journey began in the
1940s with the distribution of his first "brous de noix
a wood stain that enabled him to experiment
him to experiment with the intensity and warmth
of blacks and transparencies.
Forced to abandon this technique
only a few years after its first use, he
use, he returned to it twenty years later, using an
acrylic vinyl emulsion mixed with colored
color powders. With this emulsion
this emulsion the stability and resistance
that he had been seeking for a long time.
a high point in the painter's career.
in the painter's career.
But this moment of perfection was short-lived,
only 25 paintings in walnut stain with
acrylic-vinyl binder were produced on the
of Soulages' more than 1,700 canvases, dated
between November 11, 1970 and October 15
1977. The one we are presenting is therefore
exceptional not only for its rarity, but also for the
quality of a composition of vertically upright
vertical forms, striated horizontally by thick brushstrokes
by thick brushstrokes, skilfully playing with
transparencies in the thickness of the
pictorial matter.
Two of the six "paintings on paper 33 x 41 cm" using a similar technique of brou de noix (walnut stain) and
acrylic-vinyl binder technique produced in 1971, part of the 2005 Pierre & Colette Soulages donation to the Musée
Fabre de Montpellier.
These works illustrate Pierre Soulages' research, combining gesture with this material emblematic of the period.
are to be compared with the lot presented. We would like to thank its director, Michel Hilaire, for this reproduction right.
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