For his 100th birthday, Pierre Soulages is being given a retrospective of his entire career at the Louvre museum. Until now, only Picasso and Chagall had received such tributes at the Louvre, to celebrate their 90th birthdays.
This exhibition tells the story of Pierre Soulages’s work from 1946 to today, illustrating the eight decades of Soulages’s research in the field of painting.
The Louvre exhibition highlights the artist’s “Outrenoirs” period, as in the following work. Pierre Soulages’s ''Painting 72.5 x 81 cm, May 3, 1985'', shown in the video by Artmyn, our partner, is representative of the artist’s research into the reflection of light carried out in the 80s.
This work takes place during the creation of small polyptychs, sets of painted panels, by the artist in a very short period running from April 21 to May 5, 1985. All the works from this period show the same striations and flat bands, which can be discovered thanks to Artmyn’s technology, allowing us to rediscover Pierre Soulages’s works as they have never been seen before.
