Pierre Soulages: Etching III, Original etching, signed - 1956
Etching III
Original etching
Signed in the plate
Numbered 329/400
On Rives vellum 26.5 x 16 cm
Reference: Catalog raisonné "Soulages the printed work" / BNF #3
Excellent condition, sheet slightly yellowed at the edge
Realized in 1956 for the exhibition "Pierre Soulages" at the Galerie de France; This is the second engraving made by Soulages, who thus begins to experiment with the possibilities of this technique, which allows him to obtain blacks of another quality and new texture effects.
Dimensions :
- Height : 26.5 cm
- Width : 19 cm
Pierre Soulages :
Born in 1919 in Rodez (Aveyron, France), Pierre Soulages is a french painter and engraver associated since the end of the 1940's to abstract art. He is particuliarly known for his use of reflects in the «black» color, which he called "noir-lumière" or "outrenoir". He realized about1 550 paintings all called «Peinture» followed by their size, he is one of the major representatives of informal painting. Since 1975 the painter received many prizes (Great Prize of painting of Paris, Rembrandt Prize, Great national painting prize, Praemium Imperiale «Painting» category ...). The Soulages museum in Rodez, launched in 2014, keeps the artist's greatest collection in the world.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan)
Abbey of Conques (France)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
Francois Pinault Foundation (Italy)
Fabre Museum (France)
MacVal (France)
Societe Generale collection (France)
FRAC Auvergne (France)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Museo Tamayo (Mexico City)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Nantes Fine Arts Museum (France)
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Nice (MAMAC) (France)
The José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo Collection (Portugal)
Slaughterhouses - FRAC Midi Pyrenees (France)
Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation (France)
LAM (Lille Métropole Modern Art Museum) (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museum Kiasma (Finland)
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (France)
FRAC Brittany (France)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Essl Museum (Austria)
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (France)
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM) (Italy)
Limousin art library + FACLIM (France)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (The USA)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute (France)
Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Randers Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
Artotheque of Brest (France)
Henie Onstad Museum (Norway)
Artotheque of Caen (France)
Collection Thomas Neirynck (Belgium)
UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art (The USA)
Sara Hildén Art Museum (Finland)
Artotheque, Angers (France)
National Center for Plastic Arts (France)
Modern Art Museum of Saint-Etienne Métropole (France)
Fine Arts Museum of Lyon (France)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Fine Arts Museum of Caen (France)
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Canada)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
mglc (Slovenia)
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (México)
Michel Fedoroff Collection (Monaco)
Soulages Museum (France)
Gandur Foundation for Art (Switzerland)
Biedermann Museum (Germany)
Laurent Dumas Collection (Emerige) (France)
Rennes Fine Arts Museum (France)
