Only two other contemporary artists—Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall—have so far received a solo exhibition at the Louvre
PIERRE SOULAGES is a national treasure in France. Last month a painting of his from 1960 sold at auction in Paris for €9.6m , making him the country’s most expensive artist; François Hollande, a former French president, has said he is the greatest artist alive. In 2009 the Pompidou Centre hosted a vast retrospective of his work on the occasion of Mr Soulages’s 90th birthday.
Black is the artist’s defining colour . Mr Soulages has been fascinated by it since he was a child, andas “very active”, with shades that are “never the same because the light is always changing it”. For his acclaimed “Outrenoir”, or “Beyond Black”, series, which he commenced in 1979, Mr Soulages applied inky paint in thick layers using spoons, squeegees, rakes and bits of rubber, or made his own tools to achieve a particular effect.
Mr Soulages’s fame in his native country is assured, but internationally it has been more fickle . In the early 1960s Mr Soulages was celebrated in America as part of a group that included Mark Rothko and Franz Kline; he was the top artist for Samuel Kootz, a gallerist who championed Abstract Expressionism. Kootz put on eight shows of Mr Soulages’s work during the 12 years he represented him, but after Kootz closed his gallery in 1966 Mr Soulages’s reputation faded.
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