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Pierre Soulages

1919 - 2022

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Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages (French: [sulaʒ]; Occitan: Pèire Solatges; 24 December 1919 – 25 October 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist." His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Soulages is the 661st most popular painter (down from 620th in 2019), the 1,967th most popular biography from France (down from 1,838th in 2019) and the 126th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pierre Soulages ranks 661 out of 2,023. Before him are Emanuel de Witte, Jozef Israëls, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, Bernardo Daddi, Balthasar van der Ast, and Franz von Bayros. After him are Bartholomeus van der Helst, Jan Toorop, Leonid Pasternak, Jannis Kounellis, Cindy Sherman, and Nicolas de Staël.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Pierre Soulages ranks 79. Before him are Gillo Pontecorvo, Liberace, Bob Paisley, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Art Blakey, and Hermine Braunsteiner. After him are George Wallace, Christoph Probst, Joe Weider, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, François Périer, and Red Buttons. Among people deceased in 2022, Pierre Soulages ranks 114. Before him are Mario Terán, Gal Costa, David Sassoli, Radu Lupu, Thierry Mugler, and Alain Tanner. After him are Yoshio Kikugawa, Andy Fletcher, Margaret Keane, David Trimble, Cüneyt Arkın, and Jozef Tomko.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Soulages ranks 1,967 out of 6,770. Before him are Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Thierry Mugler (1948), Edward, Count of Savoy (1284), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Odilo of Cluny (961), and Colette of Corbie (1381). After him are Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou (945), Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon (1491), Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Louise de Coligny (1555), and André Charles Boulle (1642).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Pierre Soulages ranks 126. Before him are Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Jean-Paul Laurens (1838), Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761), Adrien Manglard (1695), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), and Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823). After him are Achille Devéria (1800), Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767), Valentin de Boulogne (1591), Carolus-Duran (1837), Marguerite Gérard (1761), and François Lemoyne (1688).

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