Pierre Soulages
Eau-forte III, 1956
Original etching on Rives vellum
Signed in the plate
Dimensions : 24.5 x 17 cm
Edited at 400 copies
Numbered 177
Presented in a baguette black frame
In very good condition, the inner left border of the page slightly crumpled and a small tear on the upper right corner of the page
Reference: Catalogue raisonné "Soulages the printed work" / BNF #3
Created in 1956 for the exhibition "Pierre Soulages" at the Galerie de France ; it is the second engraving created by Soulages when he is starting to experiment with the possibilities of this
technique which allows him to obtain a black of a different quality and new texture effects.
Musée d'Evreux (France)
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan)
Abbatiale de Conques (France)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
François Pinault Foundation (Italy)
Musée Fabre (France)
MacVal (France)
Collection Société Générale (France)
FRAC Auvergne (France)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Museo Tamayo (México)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (France)
Musée d'art Moderne et contemporain de Nice (MAMAC) (France)
The José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo Collection (Portugal)
Les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght (France)
LAM (Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole) (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (France)
FRAC Bretagne (France)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Essl Museum (Austria)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea (GAM) (Italy)
Artothèque du Limousin + FACLIM (France)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (The USA)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Institut culturel Bernard Magrez (France)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Randers Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
Artothèque de Brest (France)
Henie Onstad Museum (Norway)
Artothèque de Caen (France)
Collection Thomas Neirynck (Belgium)
UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art (The USA)
Sara Hildén Art Museum (Finland)
Artothèque, Angers (France)
Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole (France)
Musée des Beaux arts de Lyon (France)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Musée des Beaux arts de Caen (France)
Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal (Canada)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
mglc (Slovenia)
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (México)
Collection Michel Fedoroff (Monaco)
Musée Soulages (France)
Fondation Gandur pour l'art (Switzerland)
Biedermann Museum (Germany)
Collection Laurent Dumas (Emerige) (France)
Musée des beaux arts de Rennes (France)