Published by Ides & Calendes. Preface by Marie du Bouchet. Text by Eliza Rathbone, Germain Viatte, André Chastel, Roger Van Gindertael, Anne de Staël.
The first catalogue raisonné in English, this 800-page volume documents all 1,120 works by French painter Nicolas de Staël (1914–55) in full color. Expanded and updated from the French catalogue raisonné of 1997, it is augmented with classic texts on de Stael's work, exhibition histories, provenance for each work and essays by, among others, former chief curator of the Phillips Collection, Eliza Rathbone. Made (and exhibited) contemporaneously with American abstract expressionism, de Staël's works are characterized by thick impastoed bricks of color that oscillate between landscape and abstraction, compact composition and a singularly intense sense of light.
A major influence on American painters such as Richard Diebenkorn and Etel Adnan, de Staël’s earliest American champion and collector, Duncan Phillips, founder of the Phillips Collection, called de Staël "the most gifted, the most influential and the most painterly" of modern European painters.
PUBLISHER Ides & Calendes
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. / 800 pgs / 800 color / 300 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/29/2021 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 126
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9782825802939SDNR30 List Price: $185.00 CDN $265.00
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Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Foreward by David Nash. Text by Michael Peppiatt.
Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) was one of the most celebrated European painters of the postwar period. His career was brief but intense; in the span of about 15 years he became a leading figure of what is now called the School of Paris. This catalogue documents his most prolific decade, the 1950s.
Nicolas de Staël