PARIS, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Pierre Soulages, the French summary painter finest identified for experimenting with totally different shades of black, has died aged 102, the museum devoted to his life and work in his southwestern hometown of Rodez mentioned on Wednesday.
Soulages, who museum head Benoît Decron mentioned died on Tuesday night in hospital, had labored completely with black since 1979, notably in a sequence of works he referred to as “Outrenoir”, or “Past Black”.
Born on Christmas Eve 1919, he additionally created the 104 stained glass home windows that adorn Conques Abbey in southwestern France.
Soulages is survived by his spouse Colette, who’s 101.
Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau, Dominique Vidalon, modifying by Tassilo Hummel and John Stonestreet
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