Pierre Soulages
French · 1919–2022 · Painter, Printmaker
Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
Peinture 92 x 65 cm, 3 août 1954Ketterer Kunst · €2,245,000≈ $2,530,789≈ £1,916,248Sign up to see
Peinture 202 x 143 cm, 25 septembre 1967Phillips · HK$11,098,000≈ $1,426,315≈ £1,134,337≈ €1,359,042Sign up to see
Peinture 130 x 162 cm, 12 mai 1965Phillips · £933,000≈ $1,295,377≈ €1,042,893Sign up to see
Pierre Soulages’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
Coming up at auction
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Listed from the auction houses’ own websites; estimates are the houses’ own, not results.
Price trend
5 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.
1 sold lot(s) are awaiting a USD exchange rate and are excluded from averages.
By medium
| Medium | Offered | Sold | Sell-through | Average | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paintings | 16 | 14 | 88% | $749kSign up | $471kSign up | $2.5MSign up |
| Oil | 12 | 10 | 83% | $783kSign up | $471kSign up | $2.5MSign up |
| Acrylic | 3 | 3 | 100% | $747kSign up | $866kSign up | $1MSign up |
| Mixed media | 1 | 1 | 100% | $415kSign up | $415kSign up | $415kSign up |
| Works on paper | 12 | 12 | 100% | $181kSign up | $208kSign up | $411kSign up |
| Watercolor | 2 | 2 | 100% | $25.5kSign up | $25.5kSign up | $27.5kSign up |
| Gouache | 4 | 4 | 100% | $151kSign up | $119kSign up | $325kSign up |
| Drawing | 1 | 1 | 100% | $411kSign up | $411kSign up | $411kSign up |
| Prints & multiples | 223 | 215 | 96% | $10.9kSign up | $8.8kSign up | $60.2kSign up |
| Etching | 70 | 66 | 94% | $13.5kSign up | $9.4kSign up | $60.2kSign up |
| Aquatint | 30 | 30 | 100% | $14.6kSign up | $11kSign up | $37.5kSign up |
| Lithograph | 95 | 92 | 97% | $9.1kSign up | $8.7kSign up | $36.6kSign up |
| Screenprint | 23 | 22 | 96% | $7.6kSign up | $6.3kSign up | $18.8kSign up |
| Print (other) | 5 | 5 | 100% | $1.6kSign up | $1.4kSign up | $3.4kSign up |
| Sculpture | 1 | 1 | 100% | $218kSign up | $218kSign up | $218kSign up |
Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.
By year
| Year | Offered | Sold | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 | 14 | $12.2kSign up |
| 2025 | 26 | 25 | $8.9kSign up |
| 2024 | 20 | 16 | $10.7kSign up |
| 2023 | 17 | 16 | $15.3kSign up |
| 2022 | 20 | 20 | $36.5kSign up |
| 2021 | 8 | 8 | $22.9kSign up |
| 2020 | 10 | 10 | $17.7kSign up |
| 2019 | 12 | 12 | $10.1kSign up |
| 2018 | 17 | 15 | $10.9kSign up |
| 2017 | 9 | 9 | $13kSign up |
| 2016 | 9 | 8 | $11.7kSign up |
| 2015 | 17 | 17 | $7.1kSign up |
| 2014 | 6 | 6 | $5.7kSign up |
| 2013 | 6 | 6 | $5.7kSign up |
| 2012 | 7 | 7 | $6.1kSign up |
| 2011 | 7 | 7 | $4.6kSign up |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | $4.4kSign up |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 | $5.1kSign up |
| 2008 | 3 | 3 | $3.4kSign up |
| 2007 | 7 | 7 | $1.8kSign up |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | $111kSign up |
| 2005 | 7 | 7 | $1.9kSign up |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | $997Sign up |
| 2003 | 5 | 4 | $20.1kSign up |
| 2002 | 10 | 10 | $997Sign up |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | $12kSign up |