The show, timed to coincide with Pierre Soulages’s 100th birthday, will look back at the many stages of his seven-decade career.

French abstract painter Pierre Soulages, who has died at the age of 102, went "beyond black" in a career that spanned eight decades, exploring every possible interplay of light and texture on his ...

An exhibition at the Louvre will celebrate the French painter’s 100th birthday. The only other artists given shows there during their lifetimes were Picasso and Chagall.

French abstract artist Pierre Soulages, who has died aged 102, was the Henry Ford of painting: for him there was just one colour, black, and he spent a lifetime exploring the light within it.

A 1962 painting with a generic title by 97 year-old artist Pierre Soulages was sold at an auction in France this week for more than six million euros.

Pierre Soulages in 2014 with one of his paintings at the newly opened Musée Soulages in his hometown of Rodez, France. (Pascal Pavani/AFP/Getty Images) ...