Lot 33
  • 33

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