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181 - Pierre SOULAGES (1912–2022)
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Pierre SOULAGES (1912–2022) “VIII,” 1957 Color etching on Arches paper Signed in pencil lower right; artist’s proof lower left 76 x 55.5 cm Creases along the edge in the upper right corner Bibliography: Pierre Encrevé and Marie-Cécile Miessner, “Soulages, l’oeuvre imprimé,” Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris / Musée Soulages, Rodez, 2022, no. 9 (cat. no. 8) The first etching to use acid-etched plate cutting. The enhanced presence of the embossed white areas reveals, in the artist’s words, “the flesh of the paper”
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