Pierre Soulages was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, François Hollande described him as “the world’s greatest living artist.”
Soulages was married to his wife Colette in 1942 and their marriage was childless. In 2017, the couple permanently moved to their summer retreat in Sète. Soulages died on 26 October 2022, at the age of 102, and was survived by his wife of 80 years.
Pierre Soulages Net Worth?
Pierre Soulages has a net worth of $ 1 million to $ 5 million approximately.
In an interview in 2014, he explains the definition of the term, “Outrenoir doesn’t exist in English; the closest is “beyond black.” In French, you say “outre-Manche,” “beyond the Channel,” to mean England or “outre-Rhin,” “beyond the Rhine,” to mean Germany. In other words, “beyond black” is a different country from black.
Instead of having titles, Soulages paintings are named by their size and date of production. 17 December 1966 from 1966, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the artist’s boldly brushed black-on-white canvases