1972 - Retrospective Exhibition: Art Gallery, University of Maryland.    
                                1968 - Soulages creates a ceramic mural for the "One Oliver Plaza" in Pittsburgh.    
                                1963 - The artist creates two Aubusson tapestries.    
                                1959 - Pierre Soulages wins the Grand Prize at the Ljubljana Biennial Exhibition.    
                                1957 - Soulages receives the Grand Prize at the Tokyo Biennial Exhibition. He creates several engravings and lithographs.    
                                1956 - Pierre Soulages enters the Gallery of France.    
                                1953 - The Guggenheim Museum acquires one of Pierre Soulages’s canvasses. The following year, the Tate Gallery purchases one also.    
                                1951 - Pierre Soulages enters the Louis Carré Gallery.    
                                1949 - Roger Vailland asks Soulages to create the set designs for his play which is entitled "Héloïse and Abelard" and which takes place in Paris.   
                                1948 - Soulages exhibits at the Salon of New Realities.   
                                1946 - Pierre Soulages dedicates himself to painting, but many Salons refuse to display his work.    
                                1941 - Soulages was enlisted at the age of 20. This year, 1941, he finds himself in Montpellier where he attends the School of Fine Arts
                                1919 - Pierre Soulages is born in Rodez, Southern France.    
                            
                                1949 - Gallery Lydia Conti, Paris, France.  
                                1952 - Gallery Stangl, Munich, Germany. 
                                1956 - Kootz Gallery, New-York, USA. 
                                1963 - Gallery de France, Paris, France.  
                                1967 - Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
                                1973 - Beaux-Arts Museum, Charleroi, Belgium 
                                1976 - Museum de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.   
                                1979 - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.   
                                1984 - The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan.  
                                1987 - Gallery Rieder, Münich, Germany.  
                                1988 - National Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. 
                            
                                1957 - "Soulages" by Hubert Juin, Ed. Georges Fall.   
                                1962 - "Soulages, paintings on paper" from Michel Ragon, Ed. Hazan.  
                                1972 - "Soulages" by J.J. Sweeney, Ed. Ides et Calendes.   
                                1979 - "Pierre Soulages" by Bernard Ceysson, Ed. Flammarion.  
                                1983 - "Soulages" by Pierre Daix, Ed. Ides et Calendes.  
                            
            "Soulages, l'oeuvre imprimé". Catalogue made by Pierre Encrevé, it reproduce and describe all the original prints by Soulages, about 120 prints only. B.N.F. publisher.