Pierre Soulages

PIERRE ENCREVÉ (Foussais-Payré, 1939 – Paris, 2019)
“Soulages: The Complete Works. Paintings, 1946–1959.” Volume I.
Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1994.
Hardcover with a printed dust jacket.
With numerous color illustrations, some in black and white.
Text in French.

The first volume of the catalog raisonné of Pierre Soulages’s paintings, compiled by art historian and critic Pierre Encrevé. The publication examines the works created between 1946 and 1959, a pivotal period in the development of the artist’s abstract language.

Richly illustrated, the volume reproduces the works along with their technical details, provenance, exhibition history, and bibliographic references. Due to its systematic and documentary nature, it is an essential reference work for the study, cataloging, and authentication of Soulages’s paintings. The Bibliothèque nationale de France lists it as a catalogue raisonné, published by Seuil in Paris in 1994.