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The publication examines a pivotal moment in the artist's career and in doing so sheds light on Soulages» ongoing Outrenoir paintings, the fruits of a highly independent trajectory.

On view in both Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin's spaces at 909 Madison Avenue, the exhibition introduces fourteen recent paintings from the artist's ongoing Outrenoir series alongside seminal works created in the 1950s and 1960s.

Soulages describes his discovery of Outrenoir as a breakthrough, but he was working in black all along, including paintings in oil from the 1950s and 1960s on the second of the exhibition's three floors.

The works are from the artist's ongoing Outrenoir series, and are complemented with works from the 1950s and»60s.

And if that weren't enough, a museum in his honor, Musée Soulages, is opening this month in his hometown of Rodez, France, with an inaugural exhibit of 24 of the artist's signature black Outrenoir paintings, from 1979 through 2011.

In 1979, then turning sixty, Pierre Soulages began the paintings he called Outrenoir.

With outrenoir, black became the starting point of a painting, the canvas itself, upon which he would perform dynamic actions with the brush or palette - knife.

Soulages» fascination with black, the tone with which he had come almost exclusively to mark his canvases, became a practical obsession in 1979 with the creation of his first outrenoir (beyond black) paintings.

Having realized that he needs to find an appropriate word to convey mental field opened up by these works, Soulages invented the word outrenoir — it doesn't exist in English, and its closest interpretation is «beyond black».

Also represented will be Pierre Soulages, the renowned French abstractionist whose outrenoir (beyond black) method characterizes a personal fixation with the color black and its capabilities for and limitations of reflecting light.

(It would be good to see a history of Outrenoir, like an extended diary, rather than a leap over forty years.)

Pierre Soulages includes fourteen recent paintings from the artist's ongoing Outrenoir series — metaphysically potent canvases with slashing black architectonics — alongside seminal works created in the 1950s and 60s, all on loan from major museums and important private collections.

Outrenoir can mean «beyond black» or «across black,» but also «and then black,» for the slippery grammar of a compound word is like that.

A few older works are also on display as points of reference, including a tar painting on glass from 1948, and a few of his «outrenoir» («blackbeyond») works — entirely black paintings with reflective surfaces from the 1980s, for which the artist is best known.

The new paintings, known as Outrenoir (beyond black), represent the theme of his last 35 years.

His painting style shifted subtly over his long career, becoming looser and more gestural in the 1950s and focusing almost entirely on the texture and brushwork of black oil paint on large canvases in his works after 1979, works with a colour he called «Outrenoir», literally «beyond black».

Pierre Soulages stated,» «Outrenoir» also means a country other than black, a mental field all its own.»

The same year he exhibited at the Pompidou Centre his first «mono pigmentaires» paintings, based on the reflection of light on the surface states of black, later called «outrenoir» (the word «outrenoir» can be translated loosely from French as «beyond black»).

Now, we can see the semantic and intellectual connection between his «outrenoir» and his bond to the «Outre - Atlantic» (Across the Atlantic).

Mr. Soulages dates the discovery of «outrenoir» to 1979.

(Their low - relief carvings have echoes in many of his outrenoir paintings.)

PARIS — Pierre Soulages, 94, still paints every day on the floor of his atelier in the Latin Quarter here, raking heavy black pigment across large canvases in search of a particular onyx gleam that he has termed «outrenoir,» or beyond black.

The New York show, on view through June, brings together postwar paintings on loan from museums and collectors and 14 «outrenoir» paintings made between 2012 and 2013.