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Pierre Soulages
Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist." His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez.
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culture · French painter, engraver and sculptor (1919–2022) · painter · copper engraver · sculptor · illustrator · ceramicist · theatre designer · etcher · printmaker · graphic artist · tapestry weaver · also Pierre Soulages, Pierre Jean Louis Soulages, Soulages
Born 24 December 1919 · Died 25 October 2022 · Q708631
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2022· 5 entries
Yahoo: French iconic painter of black Pierre Soulages dead at 102
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Died 2022-10-25.
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“I have always thought that he more limited the means, the stronger the expression. That may explain the choice of a small palette.”
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Soulages died in Nîmes on 25 October 2022, less than two months before his 103rd birthday, and was survived by his wife.
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette (2020).
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2019· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Pierre Soulages, Extreme Painter at 100
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Artnet: Pierre Soulages Will Become the Latest Living Artist to Show at the Louvre This December—Just in Time for His 100th Birthday
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2017· 1 entry
Permanently moved to their summer retreat in Sète
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2015).
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2014· 3 entries
Soulages presented fourteen recent works in his first American exhibition in 10 years, at Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin, New York
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President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist
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The Musée Soulages opened in Soulages' hometown of Rodez, as a place to permanently display his works and to house temporary contemporary exhibitions
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
The Museum of Mexico City presented a retrospective of paintings that also included an interview-video with the artist
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2007· 1 entry
The Musée Fabre of Montpellier devoted an entire room to Soulages, presenting a donation he made to the city
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (1999).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1992).
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1990).
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1979· 1 entry
Soulages was made a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1978).
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Carnegie Prize (1964).
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1961· 1 entry
“My instrument is not black but the light reflected from the black.”
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1954· 2 entries
Soulages began showing at Samuel Kootz
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And in New York City the same year, gaining recognition in the United States
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1950· 1 entry
Leo Castelli organized an exhibition at Sidney Janis
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-12-24.
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