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Pierre Soulages

1919 - 2022

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Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages (French: [sulaʒ]; 24 December 1919 – 25 October 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist." His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Soulages has received more than 371,392 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Pierre Soulages is the 620th most popular painter (up from 763rd in 2019), the 1,837th most popular biography from France (up from 2,258th in 2019) and the 121st most popular French Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pierre Soulages by language

Over the past year Pierre Soulages has had the most page views in the with 124,502 views, followed by English (36,637), and German (10,830). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (117.47%), Corsican (75.86%), and Belarusian (69.20%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pierre Soulages ranks 620 out of 2,023. Before him are Leonid Pasternak, Vlaho Bukovac, Wenceslaus Hollar, Christian Boltanski, Melchior Broederlam, and Wifredo Lam. After him are Carl Andre, Nicolas de Staël, Tom Wesselmann, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, and Otto van Veen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Pierre Soulages ranks 72. Before him are Bob Paisley, Mieczysław Weinberg, José Villalonga, Maurice Herzog, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, and Kiichi Miyazawa. After him are François Périer, Liberace, Christoph Probst, Joop den Uyl, George Wallace, and Glafcos Clerides. Among people deceased in 2022, Pierre Soulages ranks 97. Before him are Coolio, Paul Veyne, Patrick Tambay, Thierry Mugler, Just Jaeckin, and Hannah Pick-Goslar. After him are Michel Bouquet, Cláudio Hummes, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Viktor Saneyev, Catherine Spaak, and Toshiki Kaifu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Soulages ranks 1,837 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Luc Dehaene (1940), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Charlotte Bonaparte (1802), Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508), Christian Boltanski (1944), and Elias, Duke of Parma (1880). After him are Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (1524), Antoine Baumé (1728), André Jolivet (1905), John V, Duke of Brittany (1389), Jean Chapelain (1595), and Medardus (470).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Pierre Soulages ranks 121. Before him are Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Jules Breton (1827), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), Jules Dupré (1811), Constant Troyon (1810), and Christian Boltanski (1944). After him are Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767), Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758), Jean-Paul Laurens (1838), Valentin de Boulogne (1591), Charles-André van Loo (1705), and François-Édouard Picot (1786).

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