Pierre Soulages

Pierre Soulages (; 24 December 1919 – 25 October 2022) was a French painter, engraver, and sculptor. He was born in Rodez, Aveyron. In 1979, Pierre Soulages was made a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. From 1987 to 1994, he created 104 stained glass windows for the Romanesque Abbey church Sainte-Foy in Conques (Aveyron, France).
Soulages was the first living artist invited to exhibit at the state Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg and later with the Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow (2001).
In 2014, President François Hollande described him as "the world's greatest living artist."
in 2015, he receives the Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur.
Soulages died on 25 October 2022 in Nîmes, France at the age of 102.