PARIS.- With this major retrospective, the Centre Pompidou celebrates the work of Pierre Soulages, indisputably the greatest living French painter. Soon to be ninety, Soulages, the “painter of black and light,” is recognized as one of the major abstract artists of the post-War period. The Centre Pompidou staged its first major exhibition of Soulages’s work in 1979, which followed another held at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in 1967, before the Centre opened. Looking back over more than 60 years of activity, this autumn’s exhibition will offer a new reading of the artist’s work, with an emphasis
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