Soleils Noirs: Black Suns at the Louvre

Event Description

The exhibition brings together nearly 180 works, crossing eras and disciplines, between painting, fashion, decorative arts, projections and installations. From Vélasquez to 19th and 20th century artists like Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Kandinsky, Malevitch, Reinhardt, “Black Suns” questions the paradoxes of black and the thousand ways in which it inspired artists.

Photo: Diego Velázquez, Vieja friendo huevos (1618, English: Old Woman Frying Eggs). National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Wikipedia, public domain.