Pierre Soulages

Painter, born in Rodez, SC France. A leading abstract painter of the School of Paris, his paintings are untitled, identified only by the year in which they were finished.

Pierre Soulages (born December 24, 1919) is a French painter, engraver and sculptor.

Born in Rodez (Aveyron) in 1919, Soulages is also known as "the painter of black" because of his interest in this colour ("At once a colour and a non-colour. striating the black surface of his paintings enables him to make the light reflect, this way black comes out from darkness to brightness and becomes a luminous colour.

Before World War II, Soulages had already toured museums in Paris seeking his vocation, and after wartime military service, he opened a studio in Paris, holding his first exhibition at the Salon des Surindépendants in 1947.

From 1987 to 1994 he executed the 104 stained glass windows of the romanesque church of Sainte-Foy in Conques (Aveyron, France).