Lot 1
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Nicolas de Staël

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 EUR
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Description

  • Nicolas de Staël
  • Portrait de femme
  • porte le cachet de la signature

  • collage sur papier
  • 38,5 x 30,2 cm; 15 1/4 x 12 in.
  • Exécuté en 1954.

Provenance

Collection Douglas Cooper, Argilliers
Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris
Galerie de l'Echaudé, Paris
Acquis auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Arles, Musée Réattu, Nicolas de Staël, 1958, no. 95
Parme, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Nicolas de Staël, 1994 ; catalogue, p.197, no.131, illustré

Literature

"La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot", 1er juin 1990, p.14, illustré
Françoise Monnin, Le Collage, in "La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot", 11 janvier 1991, p.76, illustré
Françoise Monnin, Le Collage, Art du Vingtième Siècle, Paris, 1993, p.90, illustré
"La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot", 28 mai 1993, p.77, illustré
Marco Vallora, De Staël, tradito dal cognome, in "La Stampa", 11 avril 1994

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Executed on a cream wove paper, there is some time staining visible along the edges. Due to the artist technique, there are some remnants of artist media (a line of blue) and some pale shadows around the body where the glue has been applied (all visible in the catalogue illustration). The white texture is a kind of distemper or gouache. Colours: the illustration is fairly accurate but the blue is more vivid and the red less contrasted in the original.
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Catalogue Note

stamped with the signature; collage on paper. Executed in 1954.

Cette oeuvre est à rapprocher du tableau Portrait d'Anne de 1953, conservé au Musée d'Unterlinden à Colmar. Une lithographie a été éditée à partir de ce collage.

Nicolas de Staël, Portrait d'Anne, 1953 (huile sur toile, 130 x 89 cm), collection du Musée d'Unterlinden à Colmar. © ADAGP, Paris 2009