Representative work by Nicolas de Staël
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Nicolas de Staël

1914–1955 · Russian-born French

Nicolas de Staël developed a thickly painted language that moved between abstraction and recognizable landscape, still life and figure. In the early 1950s his forms opened into blocks of luminous color before his death in 1955.

Painting; drawing

Major Works

  • 1952Parc des Princes
  • 1955Le Concert
  • 1953–54Agrigente
  • 1954Mediterranean Landscape
  • 1952Les Footballeurs
  • 1949Composition
  • 1952Flowers
  • 1953Still Life
  • 1953Nu debout
  • 1954Sicily

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