Lithographie n° 5

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Pierre Soulages

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The previous owner of this work was Jean Pons of the Atelier de lithographie E. Pons in Paris. The atelier worked closely with Pierre Soulages during his period of lithographic printing from the mid 1950s onwards.

Lithographie n° 5

Pierre Soulages

Artist: Pierre Soulages (b.1919)
Title: Lithographie n° 5
Medium: Lithograph in colours on Rives paper
Date: 1957
Size: 25 3/4 x 20 in : 65.5 x 50.5 cm
Edition: A "bon à tirer" proof aside from the edition of 60
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Bon à tirer" and signed, lower right
Printer: Printed by Pons, Paris
Publisher: Published by Berggruen, Paris
Provenance: Collection of Jean Pons, Atelier de lithographie E. Pons
Literature: "Soulages l'œuvre imprimé", Pierre Encrevé & Marie-Cécile Miessner, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003, no. 48 (col. illus. pl. 47) and indexed p.188
"Soulages Eaux-fortes, lithographies 1952-1973", Yves Rivière, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, 1974, no. 5 (b/w illus.) pp.82-83
Reference: A20-06
Status: No longer available