Nicolas de Staël
Cover for 'Maximes' by Pierre Lecuire
About this artwork
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artist:
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title:Cover for 'Maximes' by Pierre Lecuire
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date created:Published 1995
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materials:Lithograph on paper after original gouache
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measurements:44.00 x 56.80 cm (folded)
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credit line:Bequeathed by W.J. Strachan in memory of his great-grandfather James Strachan 1994
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accession number:GMA 3874
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Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël
De Staël was born in St Petersburg. The Revolution of 1919 caused his family to leave Russia and move first to Poland, then Brussels, where Nicolas studied art. He travelled widely in the 1930s, settling in Paris in 1938, where he studied briefly under Léger. After the Second World War de Staël...