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Pierre Soulages was a French Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1919. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sotheby's New York have featured Pierre Soulages's work in the past.Pierre Soulages's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 20,141,700 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 20,141,700 USD for Peinture 195 x 130 cm, 4?ao?t 1961, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2021. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 361,145 USD, while his architecture & design have sold for an average of 261,030 USD.Pierre Soulages has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in October 2025. The artist died in 2022.
Artist's alternative names: Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages
Opera Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a temporary exhibition space at 827 Madison Avenue, NY, NY, 10065 (at the corner of 69th Street and Madison Avenue).
Collectors here seem increasingly selective, gravitating toward institutionally grounded names and blue-chip fixtures, while showing less appetite for new figurative works propelled by purely commercial momentum.
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..Since 1979, the artist has been concerned exclusively with the Outrenoirs, as Soulages calls his mostly monochrome paintings that ‘go beyond black’...
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.. Since 1979, the artist has been concerned exclusively with a series of mainly monochrome paintings he as defined as Outrenoirs (translated "beyond black"), known for their effect of bottomless depth created...
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..Soulages describes this radical extension of pure black as “outrenoir”, and talks of the “unique noir de ces peintures noires, ce sont des différences de textures, lisses, fibreuses, calmes, tendues ou...
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