Nicolas de Stal (1914-1955)

Composition

细节

Nicolas de Stal (1914-1955)
Composition
oil on canvas
7.3/8 x 10.5/8in. (19 x 27cm.)
Painted in Paris in 1950

来源

Andr Breton, Paris.
Theodore Schempp, Knoedler and Co., New York (A 6309).
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1068).

出版

R. van Gindertael, Nicolas de Stael, Paris 1950, p. 11.
D. Cooper & R. van Gindertael, Nicolas de Stael, Basel 1966, pl. 13 (illustrated in colour)
J. Dubourg & F. de Stal, Nicolas de Stal: Catalogue Raisonn des Peintures, Paris 1968, no. 219 (illustrated p. 131).
P. Granville, De Stal: Peintures, Paris 1984. p. 48 (illustrated).
F. de Stal, Nicolas de Stal: Catalogue Raisonn de l'Oeuvre Peint, Neuchtel 1997, no. 248 (illustrated p. 285).

展览

Bern, Kunsthalle, Ben Nicholson, May-July 1951, no. 51.
St-Gallen, Kunstmuseum, Arp, Bissier, Nicholson, Tobey and Volluti, June-August 1963, no. 54.

拍品专文

The American dealer Theodore Schempp probably acquired Composition directly from Andr Breton who knew de Stal in Paris. It is because of Schempp was an enthusiastic supporter of de Stals work and it was partly because of him that de Stal's work was so readily established to so widespread an audience.

Composition is a prime example of how de Stal refused to proclaim the originality of either the figurative or the abstract vision and indeed understood that the quality of existing mattered more than the specifics: 'I do not set up abstract painting in opposition to figurative. A painting should be both abstract and figurative: abstract to the extent that it is a flat surface, figurative to the extent that it is a representation of space.' (de Stal as quoted in Exh. cat., Nicolas de Stal in America, Washington D.C. U.S.A., 1990, p. 22)