Pierre SOULAGES (1919-2022). Serigraph n°3, 1974. Published on the occasion of the first exhibition of Pierre Soulages' work in Africa at the Musée Dynamique in Dakar in 1974. Silkscreen on Arches wove paper after a painting dated 21/09/1967. Signed and numbered 193/200 on the back. Countersigned by Léopold Sedar Senghor on the back. 43 x 31 cm. Bibliography: N°95 of the printed work, Catalogue BNF, reproduced under illustration 94, Paris, 2022.

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