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Soulages

Soulages

Cohen, Arthur
Marron-Wojewodzki, Maud
Mathes, Glenn

Paperback

Series: The Hermann Genius Pocket Guide

Art HistoryIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $10.99

ISBN13: 9798900080338
Publisher: Hermann Editions
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.01 Width: 4.11 Depth: 6.91
Language: English

Enter the powerful and meditative world of Pierre Soulages (1919-2022), the French abstract painter celebrated for his lifelong investigation of black, surface, texture, and reflected light. This pocket guide traces his development from early calligraphic compositions to the groundbreaking Outrenoir paintings that made black not an absence of color, but a source of shifting illumination. Learn what to look for in Soulages's ridges, grooves, broad gestures, material surfaces, and changing effects as light moves across a work. Biographical insights, engaging anecdotes, a personal portrait, and memorable quotations reveal the patience, independence, and philosophical depth behind his practice. A focused examination of one significant painting demonstrates how texture and light create an experience that changes with the viewer's position. Featuring more than 65 full-color reproductions, this elegantly designed volume introduces one of Europe's most important postwar artists and his radically focused vision.

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