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3 Décembre 1966
Artist:
Pierre Soulages
(French, 1919 - 2022)
Date: 1966
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 62 5/8 x 79 1/2 in. (159.1 x 201.9 cm)
Classification: Modern art
Credit Line: Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Copyright: © Pierre Soulages / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY
Object number: 71.1086
Terms
- Abstract
- Painting
- Black
- Abstract
In Collection(s)
Not on view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting. The primary color is black; the broad paint strokes are visible and lighten toward the edges. White and brown paint show through at various points, closer to the perimeter of the painting.
Exhibition History"Soulages: Paintings Since 1963," M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., February 6 - February 24, 1968; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 7 - April 7, 1968; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., May 6 - June 2, 1968.
"International Moderns from the Permanent Collection," Chrysler Museum, April 24 - June 29, 1980.
"Remix Redux: A Fresh Mix For Our Modern And Contemporary Galleries," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, August 15 - December 30, 2012.
"International Moderns from the Permanent Collection," Chrysler Museum, April 24 - June 29, 1980.
"Remix Redux: A Fresh Mix For Our Modern And Contemporary Galleries," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, August 15 - December 30, 2012.
Label textPierre Soulages
French, b. 1919
3 Décembre 1966, 1966
Oil on canvas
Notice how the black areas in this painting seem to darken before your eyes. French artist Pierre Soulages has spent his entire career exploring how black paint reflects light and space by creating grand strokes on canvas with a large brush. Unlike the expressive gestures of the Abstract Expressionists seen nearby, Soulages’ work evokes a sense of permanence and architectural weightiness. Inspired in part by church windows, he contrasts his black forms with slivers of light paint, suggesting the feeling of looking out toward a brilliant light from within a darkened interior.
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.1086
French, b. 1919
3 Décembre 1966, 1966
Oil on canvas
Notice how the black areas in this painting seem to darken before your eyes. French artist Pierre Soulages has spent his entire career exploring how black paint reflects light and space by creating grand strokes on canvas with a large brush. Unlike the expressive gestures of the Abstract Expressionists seen nearby, Soulages’ work evokes a sense of permanence and architectural weightiness. Inspired in part by church windows, he contrasts his black forms with slivers of light paint, suggesting the feeling of looking out toward a brilliant light from within a darkened interior.
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.1086
Published References
James Johnson Sweeney, _Soulages: Paintings Since 1963_, exh. cat., M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y., 1968, 21, no. 13.
"New Exhibitions," _The Chrysler Museum_ 10, no. 3 (April 1980): cover.
Provenance
Pierre Soulages, December 1966; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y., 1968; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1971; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1971.