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196 - SENGHOR (Léopold Sédar) – SOULAGES (Pierre).
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Estimate €800 - €1,200
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SENGHOR (Léopold Sédar) – SOULAGES (Pierre). The Creative Power of Pierre Soulages. [Nice], 1974. — Folio, 434 x 315: (2 ff.), plain black cover. Loose-leaf. First edition of the text by Léopold Sédar Senghor. This publication ‘was produced to mark the first exhibition of Pierre Soulages’ works in Africa, held in Dakar at the Musée Dynamique in 1974’. It features a full-page, unsigned silkscreen print by Pierre SOULAGES, based on a painting dated 21 September 1967. In his text, Senghor highlights the significance of this retrospective (1947–1973), which features paintings, engravings, lithographs and a tapestry by Soulages. For him, Soulages embodies one of the greatest painters of his time, a master of pure painting, free from all imitation. He emphasises that the artist is constantly deepening his artistic universe, infinitely varying his subject matter to invent a new reality. His art, abstract and otherworldly, reveals a creative power that Senghor compares to African art, the fruit of the collective imagination. It is this universal and visionary dimension which, in his view, fully justified Soulages’s place at the Musée dynamique in Dakar. This booklet was printed in a run of 215 numbered copies on Arches vellum, signed by the author and the artist on the colophon (no. 32). However, this print run appears to have been greatly overestimated, given how extremely rare it is to find a copy on the market today. The text sheet and the silkscreen print are in perfect condition, but the cover has a few minor tears at the edges, with no missing sections.
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About the sale Claude Mozis Library – Black Africa and the African diaspora
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Auction time 10/21/2026 at 2:00 PM
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