Lot 2
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Pierre Soulages

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 EUR
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Description

  • Pierre Soulages
  • Peinture 100 x 73 cm, 14 novembre 1955
  • signé; signé, titré et daté au dos
  • huile sur toile
  • 100 x 72,7 cm; 39 3/8 x 28 5/8 in.
  • Exécuté le 14 novembre 1955.

Provenance

Kootz Gallery, New York
Acquis auprès de celle-ci en 1956 et transmis par descendance au propriétaire actuel

Literature

Pierre Encrevé, Soulages, L'Oeuvre complet - Peintures, I.1946-1959, Paris, 1994, p.192, no.197, illustré en couleurs (titre et provenance erronés avec le no.202, p.200)

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration, although the overall tonality is much more light, vivid and subtle in the original. Some hairlines cracks to the impasto areas are only visible under close inspection (they are more visible in the catalogue illustration than in the original). An area of craquelures in the upper right corner (located 17cm from the right edge and 8cm from the upper edge), three minor dots (located approx. 30cm from the right edge and 8cm from the upper edge) and a minor area (located approx. 33cm from the right edge and 26cm from the lower edge) have been stabilized by a careful restauration, only visible under UV light. It is on its original canvas, not lined. This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed; signed, titled and dated on the back; oil on canvas. Executed on the 14th of November 1955.

" Une peinture est une organisation, un ensemble de relations entre des formes... " (Pierre Soulages, 1948, Stuttgart, Franzosische Abstrakte Malrei)

Pierre Soulages, 1965. © Yousuf Karsh