Details
Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955)
Composition on Blue Ground
signed Nicolas
collage on paper
23 x 18 1/2in. (58.5 x 47cm.)
Executed in 1953
Composition on Blue Ground
signed Nicolas
collage on paper
23 x 18 1/2in. (58.5 x 47cm.)
Executed in 1953
Provenance
Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich
Collection Walter Franz, Cologne
Collection Walter Franz, Cologne
Literature
Eberhard Ruhmer, Nicolas de Staël: Die Kunst und das Schöne Heim, vol. 59, no. 1, Munich 1960, pp. 6-9 (illustrated p. 8)
Exhibited
London, Gimpel Fils, Nicolas de Staël, June-July 1963, no. 23 (illustrated)
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Zurich, Kunsthaus; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, De Stäel, May 1965-April 1966, no. 78 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue)
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Zurich, Kunsthaus; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, De Stäel, May 1965-April 1966, no. 78 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue)