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Composition
Details
Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955)
Composition
signed and dated 'Staël 51' (lower left)
oil on canvas
31¾ x 45 5/8in. (80.7 x 116cm.)
Painted in 1951
Composition
signed and dated 'Staël 51' (lower left)
oil on canvas
31¾ x 45 5/8in. (80.7 x 116cm.)
Painted in 1951
Provenance
Theodore Schempp & Co., New York.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Randall Shapiro, Oak Park, Illinois.
A gift from the above to the present owner.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Randall Shapiro, Oak Park, Illinois.
A gift from the above to the present owner.
Literature
J. Dubourg & F. de Staël, Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures de Nicolas de Staël, Paris 1968, no.293 (illustrated in colour, pp.152 & 167).
F. de Staël, Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint et Lettres de Nicolas de Staël, Neuchâtel 1997, no.299 (illustrated in colour, p.304).
F. de Staël, Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint et Lettres de Nicolas de Staël, Neuchâtel 1997, no.299 (illustrated in colour, p.304).
Exhibited
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Nicolas de Staël, November 1955, no. 18. This exhibition travelled to Kalamazoo, Michigan, Institute of Fine Arts, December 1955-January 1956; Lincoln, Massachusetts, De Cordova Dana Museum, January-March 1956; Washington D.C., The Phillips Gallery, May-June 1956; Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Center, August 1956; New York, Rockefeller Center, Time Inc., October 1956; Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, October-November 1956; Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, November-December 1956.
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Da Silva, de Staël, Wols, 1959, no.23.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection and the Mayer Loan Collection, 1979.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, 1984 (illustrated in the catalogue, pp.60-61).
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, February-April 1985, no.147.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting and Sculpture 1950s-1980s, October-April 1986, No.78.41.
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Da Silva, de Staël, Wols, 1959, no.23.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection and the Mayer Loan Collection, 1979.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, 1984 (illustrated in the catalogue, pp.60-61).
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, February-April 1985, no.147.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting and Sculpture 1950s-1980s, October-April 1986, No.78.41.
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