Lot 207
  • 207

Nicolas de Staël

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Nicolas de Staël
  • Composition en Bleu
  • signed and dated 45
  • oil on canvas
  • 93 by 75 cm. 36 1/2 by 29 1/2 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris
Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Private Collection
Private Collection, Japan

Exhibited

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne; Paris, Palais de Tokyo; London, Whitechapel Gallery, Retrospective: Nicolas de Staël 1944-1955, 1956, n.p., no. 7, illustrated
Edinburgh, Scottish National Academy Galleries, 62nd Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Applied Arts and Architecture, Society of Scottish Artists, 1956
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Nicolas de Staël, 1957
Kassel, Fridericianum et Belevueschloss, Documenta II, Painting after 1945, 1959, n.p., no. 2, illustrated
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen; Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich; Boston, Museum of Fine Art; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nicolas de Staël, 1965-65, n.p., no. 5, illustrated
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Nicolas Staël, 1972, p. 52, no. 6, illustrated
Tokyo, Jiyugaoka Gallery, Nicolas de Staël, 1973, n.p., illustrated

Literature

Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre peint, Paris, 1997, p. 201, no. 58, illustrated
Jacques Dubourg, Françoise de Staël, Eds., Nicolas de Staël, Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Paris 1968, p. 69, no. 44, illustrated


Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the edges tend more towards a dark green and the centre of the composition is slightly darker in the original. Condition: Please refer to the Contemporary Art department for the condition report.
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