拍品專文
"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).