尼古拉·德·斯塔埃爾

Collection of the Artist
Theodore Schempp/M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Mrs. Stanley Resor, New York (acquired from the above in March 1953)
Stephan Hahn, New York
Galerie Alex Maguy, Paris
Galerie de l’Élysée, Paris
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (acquired from the above in October 1969) 

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Nicolas de Staël, Paintings Drawings and Lithographs, March 1953, cat. no. 45 

Jacques Dubourg and Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël, Paris, 1968, cat. no. 360, p. 183, illustrated
Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1997, cat. no. 497, p. 378, illustrated

This work is in excellent condition. Under ultraviolet light, the edges around a thick nodule of paint, located in the bottom black square right of center, lightly fluoresce and may be a small retouch. The unframed canvas is edged with black tape.
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