One of the most sensational escapes from the Nazis in World War II has been made by a leading French abstract painter who comes from a long line of French soldiers and whose great-grandfather fought ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

Pierre Soulages, the abstract French painter who for more than 40 years dedicated his work solely to the color black, has died at the age of 102. The news was announced by the Musée Soulages in his ...

Once called “the world’s greatest living artist,” Mr. Soulages was best known for exploring the possibilities of the color black. By William Grimes Pierre Soulages, whose searching explorations of the ...