Pierre SOULAGES

Name: Exhibition
Start: 2017-06-07
End: 2017-08-19
Location: Tokyo

solo show

June 7, 2017 - August 19, 2017

tokyo

PIRAMIDE BUILDING, 1F, 6-6-9 ROPPONGI, MINATO-KU, TOKYO 106-0032

artist info

press release

400 people attended the opening.
5 379 people attended the exhibition.
The exhibition was open for 53 days.
Daily average 101 visitors per day including opening, 96 per day excluding opening.

On the occasion of the opening of Perrotin Tokyo, the gallery is honored to present a solo exhibition of Pierre Soulages, bringing together a collection of recent paintings. “Soulages is not only the most famous living French painter, he is a giant of painting. Today his work is shown in 110 museums around the world and has been exhibited on every continent. Soulages once said that he was truly born from painting. It was in Paris, at the end of the 1930s, that he discovered the masterpieces of Western classical and modern art: at the Louvre, at exhibits of Picasso and Cézanne, and at the Orangerie in the Tuileries, in front of Monet’s “Nymphéas.” But it was after the war, in 1946, that he effectively became an artist and began his body of work. […]” Pierre Encrevé