“Painting”, a painting by Aveyron artist Pierre Soulages dating from 1961, will be auctioned in New York on November 18th. Its future buyer could spend nearly 10 million euros according to the latest estimates of the work.
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Between 7 and 10 million euros. This is what could be worth a painting made by Pierre Soulages in 1961. Entitled “Painting”, it will be sold by the auction house Sotheby’s on November 18 in New York. A new record could even be broken. Indeed, the latest is 9.6 million euros for a painting estimated between 4 and 6 million euros at the start. A promising context for a very coveted canvas.
A canvas made with a scraping technique
All in chiaroscuro, “Painting” was created according to a very particular scraping technique revealing under-layers of paintings according to the explanations of Michel Hilaire, director of the Fabre museum, in France Bleu Occitanie.
Pierre Soulages would have also made himself the spatulas used for the famous scraping. At the height of his 101 years, the painter from Aveyron has come a long way from his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Montpellier, to become one of the most coveted French painters.
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