Sharjah24 - AFP: Pierre Soulages, a French abstract painter who passed away at the age of 102, was like the Henry Ford of art: for him, black was the only color, and he spent his whole life examining the light it contained.
The tall painter, who always dressed in black, said: "I admire the authority of black, its severity, its obviousness, its radicalism."
"It is a very vibrant color. It illuminates when placed next to a dark color, "In an interview with AFP in February 2019, he revealed.
Alfred Pacquement, a lifelong friend and the head of the Soulages museum in southern France, announced Soulages's passing to AFP on Wednesday.
works by the most popular A 1960 painting by a French artist featuring broad black stripes sold at auction at the Louvre in 2019 for $10.5 million.
His paintings were displayed in more than 110 institutions worldwide, including the Guggenheim in New York and the Tate Gallery in London, and hundreds more were stored in the Musee Soulages in his southern hometown of Rodez. He was a well-known artist in France but was less well-known elsewhere.
A rare honor for a living artist, he received a retrospective at the Louvre for his 100th birthday in December 2019.
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