Illustrated folding brochure published for Pierre Soulages’s September 10-29, 1956 exhibition at New York’s Samuel M. Kootz Gallery. 5.5 × 8.5 inches folded; opens to 16.5 × 17 inches. An early New York solo presentation from the gallery that was instrumental in establishing the French painter’s American reputation. With two black-and-white reproductions and a contemporary critical text by James Fitzsimmons, excerpted from Arts & Architecture, May 1956, addressing the mass, movement, and contained energy of Soulages's paintings. Also prints Kootz's Fall 1956 exhibition schedule and roster of represented artists, including William Baziotes, Hans Hofmann, Georges Mathieu, Gérard Schneider, Herbert Ferber, David Hare, and Ibram Lassaw. A scarce piece of mid-century New York gallery ephemera documenting Soulages at a formative moment in his international career. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with closed tear along one folded edge.
Illustrated folding brochure published for Pierre Soulages’s September 10-29, 1956 exhibition at New York’s Samuel M. Kootz Gallery. 5.5 × 8.5 inches folded; opens to 16.5 × 17 inches. An early New York solo presentation from the gallery that was instrumental in establishing the French painter’s American reputation. With two black-and-white reproductions and a contemporary critical text by James Fitzsimmons, excerpted from Arts & Architecture, May 1956, addressing the mass, movement, and contained energy of Soulages's paintings. Also prints Kootz's Fall 1956 exhibition schedule and roster of represented artists, including William Baziotes, Hans Hofmann, Georges Mathieu, Gérard Schneider, Herbert Ferber, David Hare, and Ibram Lassaw. A scarce piece of mid-century New York gallery ephemera documenting Soulages at a formative moment in his international career. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with closed tear along one folded edge.
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