Soulages
Another Light
Works on paper
Rarely brought together in separate exhibitions, Pierre Soulages’s work on paper nevertheless constitutes an essential part of his artistic career. As early as 1946, he explored this avenue with walnut stain paintings featuring broad, bold strokes, which immediately marked his singularity within the abstract approaches of the time. Thanks to exceptional loans from the Soulages Museum, the exhibition brings together 130 works created between the 1940s and the early 2000s, including 25 previously unseen works. Discover a collection of paintings on paper, long preserved in the artist’s studio, which demonstrate the consistency and freedom with which Soulages approached this medium.
Favoring walnut stain in his early years, Pierre Soulages often returned to this material, prized by cabinetmakers for its qualities of transparency, opacity, and luminosity, in contrast to the white of the paper. He also used ink and gouache for works whose limited formats in no way compromise their formal power and diversity.
By highlighting this collection of paintings on paper, the exhibition invites you to rediscover Pierre Soulages in a practice that is both intimate and decisive, at the heart of his visual language.
