French Painter Pierre Soulages, Who Dedicated His Career to the Deepest Color Black, Has Died at Age 102
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- 04 Nov 2022
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Pierre Soulages, the abstract French painter who for more than 40 years dedicated his work solely to the color black, has died at the age of 102. The news was announced by the Musée Soulages in his hometown of Rodez, France.
In the same story, the Times called Soulages the most financially successful living artist in France. That year then-President Francois Hollande also proclaimed that Soulages was “the world’s greatest living artist.”
At the time, the artist’s average auction price had increased more than 500 percent over the previous decade—and the demand has only continued to go up. Soulages’s auction record skyrocketed from £4.34 million ($6.6 million) in 2013 to $20.1 million at Sotheby’s New York last November, according to the Artnet Price Database.
France’s current president, Emmanuel Macron, weighed in on the artist’s death in a Twitter post, saying “Pierre Soulages was able to reinvent black by revealing the light. Beyond the dark, his works are vivid metaphors from which each of us draws hope.” Read More...
