The French abstract painter Pierre Soulages died yesterday aged 102.
Best known for his obsession with black in his work – or what he called outrenoir or “beyond black” – Londoners are most likely to know Soulages from his paintings at the Tate Modern, although the artist’s work has been shown at galleries around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Rio De Janiro’s Museum of Modern Art.
