All his life, Pierre Soulages has worked obsessively on the color black and its contrasts.

Sérigraphie no. 18 was created for the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games; Soulages explores the blue inside the black, here the blue has shades of black becoming another color between the two.

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Sérigraphie N°18 - 1988

Silkscreen in colours on vélin paper

Edited by "SPADM" in Paris for the

Olympic Games of Séoul

Printed by Michel Caza, Cergy, France

Published by SPADM for the Olympic Games in Seoul

Signed and numbered 271/300

89 x 68,5 cm

Literature : 

Pierre Encrevé & Marie-Cécile Miessner: “Soulages - L'Oeuvre Imprimé”, BNF / Musée Soulages, Rodez, 2003, cat. 110

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