Jean-Marie Picard, with the support of Benoît Decron, has produced a portfolio of 300 copies on the life of Soulages. Which tells a little about his own…
This had never been done before, and we can say that it is very much in the “artisan” spirit of Pierre Soulages. Still as part of the 10th anniversary of the Soulages museum, the wood engraver Jean-Marie Picard produced a portfolio of 300 copies, where his drawings mingle with briefs and echoes signed by the director of the Soulages museum Benoît Decron. Enough to satisfy again and again the unconditional fans of the master of the beyond.
Because Benoît Decron returns to small stories from the great history of the Ruthenian painter. As in this brief entitled “The America of Soulages”, where he returns to the history of this cover of a 1960 record where we see John Coltrane passing in front of a poster created by Pierre Soulages. The meeting with the writer Jospeh Delteil. Pierre and Colette Soulages’ taste for travel…
A crazy pleasure
All illustrated, therefore, by the Aveyron engraver Jean-Marie Picard, co-founder of Atelier DPJ, in Sète.
He doesn’t hide it, he took great pleasure in creating this portfolio. To work on the right balance between black and white without nuance. Accustomed to taking portraits (he notably produced 70 portraits of famous writers for an exhibition), he patiently worked to unveil a remarkable work.
Enough to forget this little regret that inhabits him: that, despite proximity, of never having dared to knock on the painter’s door. And discuss with him a technique that Pierre Soulages never tackled: wood engraving. Another little story in the big one…
