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Lot 110
  • 110

Nicolas de Staël

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description

  • Nicolas de Staël
  • Composition
  • signé et daté 1948
  • pinceau et encre de Chine sur papier
  • 103 x 71 cm; 40 9/16 x 27 15/16 in.

Provenance

Michel Laval, Reims
Collection particulière, France

Exhibited

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Londres, Tate Gallery, Nicolas de Staël, 1981; catalogue, p.153, no.130, illustré
Reims , Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1930-1970, 40 ans de collections rémoises, 1993; catalogue, p.82, illustré

Literature

Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël, Catalogue Raisonné des oeuvres sur papier, 2013, Ides et Caldendes, no.293, illustré

Condition

The colours are accurate in the catalogue illustration, although the overall tonality of the paper is lighter in the original. Except light scattered pinhead sized oxidation dots only visible under very close inspection and light discolouration located along the edges and non visible under the frame, this work is in excellent condition.
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