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Pierre Soulages

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Pierre Soulages: From Midnight to Twilight

LéVY GORVY DAYAN
Edited by Annie Godfrey Larmon. Text by Dominique Lévy, Emilio Steinberger, Harry Cooper, Alfred Pacquement, Camille Morando.

A heartfelt dedication to the creator of Outrenoir and his experiments with light reflected from black

Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 110 color / 64 bw. | 3/25/2025 | Awaiting stock
$40.00


     

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Pierre Soulages: A Century

LéVY GORVY
Text by Alfred Pacquement, Virginie Poitrasson, Mary Reilly, Courtney Fiske, Sy Hoahwah, Brooks Adams.

Featuring a printed Plexiglas cover, this gorgeous volume celebrates the 100th birthday of “the painter of black”

Hbk, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 188 pgs / 40 color / 10 bw. | 8/31/2021 | Out of stock
$75.00


Pierre Soulages: Noir Lumière

SILVANA EDITORIALE
Edited with text by Beate Reifenscheid. Text by Dieter Ronte, Mark. R. Hessilnger, Caroline Wind.

Pbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color. | 10/8/2019 | Out of stock
$35.00


  

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Pierre Soulages: New Paintings

DOMINIQUE LéVY/GALERIE PERROTIN
Text by John Yau, Alain Badiou, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Hbk, 10 x 13.5 in. / 96 pgs / 35 color / 16 duotone. | 7/26/2016 | Not available
$45.00


Pierre Soulages: From Midnight to TwilightPierre Soulages: From Midnight to Twilight

Published by Lévy Gorvy Dayan.
Edited by Annie Godfrey Larmon. Text by Dominique Lévy, Emilio Steinberger, Harry Cooper, Alfred Pacquement, Camille Morando.

Dedicated to Colette Soulages, From Midnight to Twilight celebrates 70 years of artwork by Pierre Soulages (1919–2022) on the first anniversary of his death. The exhibition catalog includes a new comparative chronology of the French master’s life and career by Camille Morando.



PUBLISHER
Lévy Gorvy Dayan

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 110 color / 64 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Forthcoming

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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 175   

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ISBN 9798218316419 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CAD $58.00 GBP £35.00

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STATUS: Forthcoming | 3/25/2025

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Pierre Soulages: A CenturyPierre Soulages: A Century

Published by Lévy Gorvy.
Text by Alfred Pacquement, Virginie Poitrasson, Mary Reilly, Courtney Fiske, Sy Hoahwah, Brooks Adams.

This fully illustrated volume reproduces works by French painter Pierre Soulages (born 1919) from the 1950s to the present, illustrating his enduring role in the dialogue between European and American painting and inviting viewers to consider an oeuvre that has injected profound poetry into abstraction through its adherence to a single material: black paint.

With a Plexiglas cover in honor of Soulages’ stained-glass windows at the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques, the book is published in both English and Chinese. An essay by Alfred Pacquement, who also cocurated the Louvre’s 2019 Soulages exhibition, reflects on the critical reception of Soulages’ work internationally. An essay by Brooks Adams charts Soulages’ engagement with architecture throughout his career. Poetry by Sy Hoahwah and Virginie Poitrasson responds to Soulages’ life story and his work, while a chronology of the artist’s life includes numerous excerpts from Soulages’ writings appearing here for the first time in English.



PUBLISHER
Lévy Gorvy

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 188 pgs / 40 color / 10 bw.

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Pub Date
Active

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Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 117   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781944379315 TRADE
List Price: $75.00 CAD $105.00 GBP £65.00

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Out of stock

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

Pierre Soulages: Noir LumièrePierre Soulages: Noir Lumière

Published by Silvana Editoriale.
Edited with text by Beate Reifenscheid. Text by Dieter Ronte, Mark. R. Hessilnger, Caroline Wind.

Noir Lumière chronicles French painter Pierre Soulages’ (born 1919) turn to black in the 1950s. The gestural marks found in Soulages’ works from this period illustrate his varied contemporary influences—Asian ink paintings, French art informel and American abstract expressionism and his friends Zao Wou-Ki, Hans Hartung and Sam Francis.



PUBLISHER
Silvana Editoriale

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.

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Active

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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 192   

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ISBN 9788836641512 FLAT40
List Price: $35.00 CAD $39.95

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Out of stock

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

Pierre Soulages: New PaintingsPierre Soulages: New Paintings

Published by Dominique Lévy/Galerie Perrotin.
Text by John Yau, Alain Badiou, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Accompanying his first American exhibition in 10 years, this publication introduces 14 new paintings by French painter, engraver and sculptor Pierre Soulages (born 1919). The works are from the artist’s ongoing Outrenoir series, and are complemented with works from the 1950s and ’60s.

PUBLISHER
Dominique Lévy/Galerie Perrotin

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 13.5 in. / 96 pgs / 35 color / 16 duotone.

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Pub Date
Out of print

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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 102   

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ISBN 9780986060694 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $60.00 GBP £40.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 00/00/00

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Soulages in AmericaSoulages in America

Published by Dominique Lévy.
Edited and with interview by Philippe Ungar. Preface by Harry Cooper. Text by Sean Sweeney. Afterword by Dominique Lévy.

In 1948, America came knocking unexpectedly at the door of Pierre Soulages (born 1919). James Johnson Sweeney, then curator at MoMA and future director of the Guggenheim Museum, had heard talk in Paris of a painter who worked in black with broad brushstrokes. He wanted to find out more. Thus began the success story of a young European painter in America. His thriving career during the 1950s to the mid-1970s consisted of shows at Betty Parsons and Sidney Janis, and exhibitions at the Phillips Collection and the Guggenheim. Hollywood celebrities like Otto Preminger, Charles Laughton and Alfred Hitchcock collected his work, which today may be found in the collections of more than 40 American museums. In 1954, Soulages joined the Kootz Gallery; when it closed 12 years later, Soulages found himself without American representation, and continued his career back in Europe, where he is among the most revered painters of his generation. Soulages in America contains a 2012 interview with the artist and his wife; a wealth of documentary material, including letters from Alfred Barr, Leo Castelli and Sam Kootz; correspondence from artists such as Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler; plus installation photographs and other archival documents.

PUBLISHER
Dominique Lévy

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.5 x 9.40 in. / 144 pgs / 16 color / 42 duotone.

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Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 149   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780986060625 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CAD $53.95 GBP £34.99

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STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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