pierre soulages - Bernard Jacobson Gallery

Bernard Jacobson Gallery
PIERRE SOULAGES
1919
Born, 24th December, Rodez, France.
1938
Begins to train as a drawing teacher in Paris.
1939
Admitted to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, but quickly leaves. Sees
exhibitions of Cézanne and Picasso before returning to Rodez.
1940
Drafted.
1941
Demobilized and admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. Meets Colette
Llaurens.
1942
Marries Colette Llaurens. Conscripted for STO, forced labour, (ʻService de travail
obligatoireʼ) in Germany but goes underground and works as a winegrower with false
papers for the remainder of the Occupation. Neither draws nor paints but becomes
friends with French poet, Joseph Delteil through whom he meets Sonia Delauney who
tells him about abstract art.
1946
Settles with Colette in Courbevoie. Unsuccessfully submits paintings to the Salon
dʼAutomne.
1947
Rents his own wall space at the Salon des Surindépendants, where his first exhibited
paintings attract much attention.
1948
Moves to Montparnasse. Participates in Salon des réalités nouvelles and O.Domnickʼs
traveling exhibition in Germany, Grosse Ausstellung französischer abstracter Malerei, for
which one of his works is the poster. Visited by James Sweeney, late director of the
Guggenheim Museum who proceeds to write often about Soulages as well as
recommending and including him in important exhibitions.
1949
First one-man show at Galerie Lydia Conti. First sale to a museum, Museé de Grenoble.
First stage design commission for Roger Vaillant at the Théâtre des Mathurins, Paris.
1950
Sells a painting to FNAC, which from 1952 is on permanent loan to the Musée National
dʼArt Moderne, Paris.
1952
Creates his first etchings after a visit from Mme Lacourière and Atelier Lacourière.
1954
First one-man show in USA at the Samuel Kootz Gallery.
1957
Separate studio in the Latin Quarter (Rue Galande)
1958
Designs and builds house, with Colette, in Sète, the South of France, also with a studio.
1960
First retrospective traveling exhibition shown around Germany.
1963
Draws cartoons for large tapestries for the Maison de la Radio in Paris, the Hochschule
St. Gallen, Switzerland and the Ministry of Finance in Paris.
1966
Designs a glass mosaic window for the Suermond-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, Germany.
Retrospective at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
1967
New Paris apartment closer to the studio. Retrospective at the Musée National dʼArt
Moderne, Paris.
1968
Designs a large ceramic decoration for a skyscraper in Pittsburgh. Retrospectives at
Musée dʼArt Contemporain, Montreal and Musée de Quebec, Quebec.
1973
Lease of studio terminated.
1974
Buys a studio close to the apartment in the Rue de Saint-Victor. Travelling retrospective
around parts of Europe and South America.
1975
First of three bronze reliefs, his only sculptural works, based on earlier etchings.
1979
Soulage presents a new type of painting at the Musée National dʼArt Moderne, Paris.
1982
A work is suspended with cables in the foyer of the new concert hall in Aarhus, Denmark.
1984
Retrospective at the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
1987
Begins work, almost exclusively, on the French stateʼs commission of 104 new windows
for the Romanesque abbey church in Conques.
1989
Retrospectives in Kassel, Valencia and Nantes.
1993
Retrospective at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.
1994
Soulagesʼ work appears in three volumes of Pierre Encrevéʼs catalogue raisonné.
Retrospective at China Fine Arts Palace, Peking and the Fine Arts Museum in Taipei.
1996
Retrospective in Paris, Montréal and São Paulo.
1999
Retrospective at the Kunstmuseum, Berne.
2000
Retrospective at les Abbatoirs, Toulouse.
2001
Retrospectives in St Petersburg and Moscow.
2005
First living artist to be exhibited in Zaha Hadidʼs new extension to the museum
Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen.
2006
Awarded the Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art.
2007
Inauguration of a permanent hanging of many of Soulageʼs works at the Musée Fabre,
Montpellier.
2009
Retrospective exhibition at Centre Pompidou in Paris. Seen by over 500,000 people, it
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was the 4 most visited exhibition in the history of the Pompidou (after Dali, Matisse and
Kandinsky).
Lives and works in Paris and Sète, France
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
1949
Galerie Lydia Conti, Paris
1954
Kootz Gallery, New York
1956
La Galerie de France, Paris
Kootz Gallery, New York
1961
Folkwang Museum, Essen (retrospective)
Gemeente Museum, The Hague (retrospective)
Kunsthaus, Zurich (retrospective)
Kootz Gallery, New York
1966
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, (retrospective)
1967
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, (retrospective)
Gimpel und Hanover Galerie, Zurich
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
Galerie de France, Paris
1968
Comité dʼétablissement du Crédit Lyonnais, Paris
Musée du Québec, Québec
Musée dʼArt Contemporain, Montréal (retrospective)
Knoedler Gallery, New York
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
1974-5 Traveling retrospective exhibition: Musée dynamique, Dakar; Fundaçao Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Salas del Patrimonio Artístico y Cultural, Madrid; Musée Fabre,
Montpellier; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Museo
Maracaibo, Fundaçao Cultural, Brasilia; Museu da Universidade, São Paulo; Museu de
Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Musée dʼArt et dʼIndustrie, Saint-Etienne
1979
MNAM-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
Galerie Birch, Copenhagen
Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem
1982
Galerie Ostertag, Frankfurt
Oberhessisches Museum, Glessen
Galerie Ponce, Mexico
Kunstbygning, Aarhus (retrospective)
Kunstpavillion, Esbjerg (retrospective)
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (retrospective)
1984
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo (retrospective)
1987
Musée Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon
Hans-Thoma Gesellschaft, Reutlingen
Galerie Rieder, Munich
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
1989
Traveling retrospective; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; IVAM-Centro Julio González,
Valencia; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Galerie Fandos, Valencia
1991
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
1992
Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc
Galerie de France, Paris
1993
Musée National d'Art Contemporain, Seoul (retrospective)
1994
China Fine Arts Palace (Meschuguan), Peking (retrospective)
Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (retrospective)
Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster
1996
Traveling retrospective “Noir-Lumière”; Musée d'Art Moderne Ville de Paris; Musée des
Beaux-Arts, Montréal; Museu de Arte, São Paulo
Galerie Applicat, Paris
Centre dʼArt Contemporain, Embrun
1999
Kunstmuseum, Berne (retrospective)
Galerie Rieder, Munich
Musée Fabre, Montpellier
2000
M.A.C. les Abattoirs, Toulouse, (retrospective)
Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
2001
Musée de lʼErmitage, Saint-Pétersbourg
Nouvelle Galerie Tretiakov, Moscow
2003
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
2005
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York
Turnbull Museum, Howland, Ohio
Musée Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund-Copenhagen
2006
Ordugaard Museum, Copenhagen
Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Muster
Sammlung Essl Kunst Der Gegenwart
2007
IVAM, Institut Valencia dʼArt Modern, Valencia (Prix Julio González)
2009
Center du Pompidou, Paris, France
Galerie Rider, Munich
2010
Galerie Boisserée, J. & W. Boisserée GmbH
COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade, São Paulo
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Musée dʼArt Contemporain, Montréal
Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal
Museo Salvador Allende, Santiago
Musikhus, Arhus
Statens Museum fort Kunst, Copenhagen
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere
Musée Picasso, Antibes
Musée de Brou, Bourg en Bresse
Musée de Beaux-Arts, Caen
F.R.A.C Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
Musée dʼUnterlinden, Colmar
F.D.A.C du Val de Marne, Créteil
Centre Régional des Télécomunications, Dijon
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque
Musée dʼEvreux, Evreux
Musée, Grenoble
F.R.A.C Provence-Côte dʼAzur, Marseille
F.R.A.C Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
Fonds National dʼArt Contemporain, Paris
Mobilier National, Paris
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
Musée dʼArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
F.R.A.C Bretagne, Rennes
Musée dʼArt Moderne, Saint-Etienne
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul
Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse
Musée dʼArt Moderne, Villeneuve dʼAscq
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Kunsthalle, Bielefeld
Ludwig Museum im Deutscheherrenhaus, Coblence
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Staatliche Museen, Kassel
Stadtische Kunsthalle peinture, Mannheim
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich
Staatsgalerie (Sammlung Domnick), Stuttgart
Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Galleria Civica dʼArte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Open-air Museum, Hakone
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
Musée National dʼHistoire et dʼArt, Luxembourg
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden
Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Fundaçao José Berardo, Sintra
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Institutio Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Tate Gallery, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Harbor
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Arts Club, Chicago
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Principia College, Elsah
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Chase Manhatten Bank, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, New York
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island
The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield
Washington University Museum, Saint-Louis
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Tarrytown
National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Phillips Collection, Washington
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
AWARDS
Rembrandt Award, 1976
Great National Award for Painting, Paris in 1987
Praemium Imperiale for painting, Japan 1994
VII Julio Gonzales Award, 2006