Pierre Soulages (b. 1919)
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Pierre Soulages (b. 1919)

Peinture, 14 avril 1949

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Pierre Soulages (b. 1919)
Peinture, 14 avril 1949
signed and dated 'Soulages 49' (lower right)
oil on canvas
51 3/8 x 75¾in. (130.5 x 192.5cm.)
Painted on 14 April 1949
Provenance
M. Munch Petersen, Aarhus-Jylland.
MM. Mogens & Jorgens Frese, Copenhagen (1951).
Galerie Artcurial, Paris (1985).
Galerie Melki, Paris (1986).
Literature
P. Encrevé, Soulages: L'Oeuvre Complet, Peintures 1946-1959, vol. I, Paris 1994, no. 27 (illustrated in colour p. 96).
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Salon de mai, May 1949.
Copenhagen, Charlottenborg, Levende Farver, September 1950, no. 181.
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta II, July-October 1959.
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Fremmed Kunst I Dansk Eje, February-April 1964.
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Soulages, January-April 1989, no. 15 (illustrated). This exhibition later travelled to Valencia, IVAM
Centre Julio González, May-June 1989 and Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, July-September 1989.
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Lot Essay

"It was in 1947 that in an abrupt manner, I started to assemble large brushstrokes into a single and immediately recognisable sign. These lines were originally nothing more than coloured surfaces. However, the period of time outlined by the continuous line of the brushstroke became suppressed. The temporal duration of this line disappeared. Time became immobilised in an amalgam of signs made from raw brushstrokes. Movement was no longer depicted, but instead became tension, compressed motion, that is to say dynamism." (Pierre Soulages as quoted in Daix & Johnson Sweeney, Pierre Soulages, L'oeuvre peint 1947-1990, Neuchâtel 1991, p. 33).

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