Peinture 130 x 97 cm, 4 mai 1960

Details

Pierre Soulages (b. 1919)
Peinture 130 x 97 cm, 4 mai 1960
signed 'soulages' (lower right); signed 'SOULAGES' (on the stretcher); signed and dated 'SOULAGES 4/5/60' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
51¼ x 38½in. (130 x 97cm.)
Painted in 1960

Provenance

Galerie Stangl, Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

P. Encrevé, Soulages, L'oeuvre complet Peintures II. 1959-1978, Paris 1995, no. 427, p. 15 (illustrated in colour, p. 66).

Exhibited

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Französische Malerei der Gegenwart, 1963. Frankfurt, Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, Formen der Abstraktion, 1995-1996. This exhibition later travelled to Rostock, Kunsthalle Rostock.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'This is infinitely more ambitious painting and its pulsation aspires to be the pulsation of the world. The great rhythms of his paintings are in effect abstractions of the great rhythms of Nature, the recordings of the cardiogram of Great Pan himself' (M. Ragon, 1960, quoted in P. Encrevé & A. Pacquement (eds.), Soulages, exh. cat., Paris, 2009, p. 311).

Peinture 130 x 97 cm, 4 mai 1960

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