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R.I.P Pierre Soulages

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R.I.P. Pierre Soulages, abstract artist commissioned in 1986 to create 104 stained glass windows for the Romanesque abbey of Sainte-Foy at Conques - a place where pilgrims repose along the Voie du Puy.

´´Delicately complementing the hues of the surrounding stone, they fulfilled Soulages’ aim of creating a diffuse light: “A living light, you might say, held in the glass itself.”

Pierre Soulages obituary

French abstract painter who expressed a fascination with black in works popular with collectors and public alike
www.theguardian.com


Glimpses of the windows at night....
 
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Lovingkindness,

Thank you for sharing the obituary of Pierre Soulages May he be at peace.

For those who love Romanesque architecture/historic restoration to stay at the Abbey of Saint Foy/ Abbatiale Sainte-Foy, Conques, and slowly visit these structures is always a splendid experience. My last visit was in winter 2012 ; bitter cold but there were no other visitors. My husband and I were taken through the abbey to see these Soulages windows with the Abbot. All was and remains unforgetable.
 
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I echo Jas_LB and others, thank you so much for sharing this. How wonderful that we can see his windows still.

As Soulages made his home in Sète, France, the same place as the town's native poet Paul Valéry, I cannot help but wondering how their lives might have overlapped and whether he ever thought of Valéry's famous poem "The Seaside Cemetery" - perhaps as an inspiration and finally a benediction. RIP Monsieur Soulages.

That sea forever starting and re-starting.
When thought has had its hour, oh how rewarding
Are the long vistas of celestial calm!
 
Will always remain in our memories.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful sight.
 
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Merci pour ce bel éloge.... I stayed two days in Congues and wish I had stayed an extra day without concern for another pilgrim. The time spent in the abbatiale was truly very special.
 
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