Lot 74
  • 74

Pierre Soulages

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 EUR
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Description

  • Pierre Soulages
  • Peinture 46 x 55 cm, 1956
  • signed; signed on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 46 x 55 cm; 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 1956.

Provenance

Private Collection, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the current owner

Exhibited

Tokyo, Minami Gallery, From Klee to Fontana, 8 June - 9 August 1962

Literature

Pierre Encrevé, Soulages, L'Oeuvre Complet, Peintures Volume I, 1954-1959, Paris, 1994, p. 240, no. 263, illustrated

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. Close inspection reveals some stabilized thin cracks located mainly on the thicker black impastos. Under Ultra Violet light inspection, some dots of restoration fluoresce, mainly located along the edges and on the black impastos, corresponding to carefully stabilized cracks and uplifts. This work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

"It was shortly after New Year's Day, 1958, that Pierre Soulages first set his foot on Japanese soil, via the United States, accompanied by his wife as well as fellow painter Zao Wou-Ki. During his three week stay before departing for Hong Kong on January 26, he visited Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara, reportedly meeting many members of the Japanese art world. By then, Soulages was already widely known in Japan as an up-and-coming abstract painter, first introduced through the 1951 Salon de Mai au Japon, and then awarded the Minister of Education Prize for Fine Arts at Japan's fourth International Art Exhibition in 1957."

Carton d'invitation pour l'exposition From Klee to Fontana, à la Galerie Minami, Tokyo, en 1962 © D.R.

Fig. 2
Pierre Soulages au Mont Unzen au Japon en 1984 © Archives Pierre & Colette Soulages, ADAGP, Paris 2017