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Pierre Soulages
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description
- Pierre Soulages
- Peinture 10,6 x 8 cm, 1949
- oil on paper laid down on canvas
- 10.5 by 8.cm.
- 4 1/8 by 3 1/8 in.
- Painted in 1949.
Provenance
Mr & Mrs Guy Marester, Paris (acquired in 1949)
Mrs Guy Marester, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Exhibited
London, Waddington Custot, Vibration of Space: Heron, De Staël, Hartung, Soulages, 2016, no. 16, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Literature
Pierre Encrevé, Soulages. L'œuvre complet. Peintures. I. 1946-1959, Paris, 1994, no. 37b, illustrated in colour p. 102
Catalogue Note
'Soulages is a great admirer of the simplicity and grandeur of Cistercian architecture… In this space defined by the musical rhythm of pure and implacable geometry, light merges into darkness'
Bernard Ceysson, Soulages, Italy, 1980, p. 18