Nicolas de Staël

Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Alfred Lambert, Paris
Galerie Nathan, Zurich
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (acquired from the above in November 1972)

Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Nicolas de Staël: paintings selected by Theodore Schempp, 1955-56, cat. no. 22 (as The White Bowl)
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Nicolas de Staël, February - April 1956, cat. no. 84, pl. XVII, illustrated
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Nicolas de Staël, September - October 1957, cat. no. 78, not illustrated
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen; Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, De Staël, May 1965 - April 1966, cat. no. 64, n.p., illustrated (Boston, Chicago and New York) and cat. no. 78, n.p., illustrated (Rotterdam and Zurich)
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Staël, July - September 1972, cat. no. 87, p. 128, illustrated 
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; London, Tate Gallery, Nicolas de Staël, May - November 1981, cat. no. 97, p. 117, illustrated in color 

Roger van Gindertael, "Au Musée d'Art moderne, retrospective Nicolas de Staël," Les Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, March 10, 1956, p. 12 (text) 
Guy Dumur, "Nicolas de Staël au Musée d'Art Moderne," Les Lettres Nouvelles, Paris, 4, no. 37, April 1956, p. 627 (text)
Herta Wescher, "Nicolas de Staël," Cimaise, Paris, 3, no. 5, April 1956, p. 19 (text)
Douglas Cooper, "Nicolas de Staël: In Memoriam," The Burlington Magazine, London 98, no. 638, May 1956, p. 142 (text) 
Lando Landini, "La mostra di de Staël a Parigi," Paragone, Florence, 7, no. 79, July 1956, p. 77 (text) 
Frank Bridel, "Le peintre Nicolas de Staël revele au public Suisse," Tribune de Genève, Geneva, October 21, 1957, p. 1 (text) 
Pierre Granville, "Nicolas de Staël, le deroulement de son oeuvre temoigne d'un destin libre et necessaire," Connaissance des Arts, Paris, no. 160, June 1965, p. 87, illustrated in color 
Jacques Dubourg and Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël, Paris, 1968, cat. no. 914, p. 352, illustrated and p. 364 (text) 
Andre Fermigier, "Un coasque au coeur innombrable," Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, July 31 - August 6, 1972, p. 35, illustrated 
Jean-Pierre Jouffroy, La mesure de Nicolas de Staël, Neuchâtel, 1981, pl. 58, p. 156, illustrated in color
Nicolas de Staël, Lettres a Jacques Dubourg, London, 1981, November 26, 1954 and February 17, 1955 (text)
Jean-Baptiste Para, "Nicolas de Staël au Grand Palais," Europe, Paris, 59, no. 628-629, August - September 1981, p. 231 (text)
Michael Peppiatt, "Au couer meme de la peinture," Connaissance des Arts, Paris, no. 352, June 1981, p. 86, illustrated in color 
Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1986, n.p., illustrated in color
Daniel Dobbels, Staël, Paris, 1994, pl. 84, n.p., illustrated in color
Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1997, cat. no. 963, p. 585, illustrated
François Baudot, Diego Giacometti, New York, 2004, n.p., illustrated in color

This painting is in excellent condition. Under ultraviolet light, there are no apparent restorations. The extreme edges of the canvas exhibit some slight rubbing from the overlap of the wood frame. The surface of the painting appears to be varnished. The canvas is framed in an ornate mouded 3 ½" wide gilded wood frame.
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