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Pierre Soulages (b. 1919)
Lot 58

Pierre Soulages (b. 1919)

Peinture 130 x 97 cm, 4 mai 1960

Closed14 February 2012

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GBP 428,480

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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

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

Specialist note

'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).