Lot Essay
To be included in the forthcoming revised edition of the Nicolas de Staël Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by François de Staël, under no. 269.
THE COLLECTION OF DR. FRANK STANTON.
Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955)
Composition
Details
Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955)
Composition
signed (lower right)
oil on canvas
51 1/4 x 38in. (130.2 x 96.5cm.)
Painted in 1950.
Composition
signed (lower right)
oil on canvas
51 1/4 x 38in. (130.2 x 96.5cm.)
Painted in 1950.
Provenance
Theodore Schempp, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1950's.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1950's.
Literature
Roger Van Gindertäel, Nicolas de Staël, Peintres et Sculpteurs D'Aujourd'hui, Paris 1950, p. 11 (illustrated pl. XXI).
Françoise de Staël and Jacques Dubourg, Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Paris 1968, p. 145, no. 258 (illustrated).
Françoise de Staël and Jacques Dubourg, Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Paris 1968, p. 145, no. 258 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Louis Carré Gallery, Modern Paintings to Live With, November-December 1950.