Le Bateau [The Boat]
About this artwork
'The Boat' was probably painted on a painting trip de Staël made to the north coast of France in the summer of 1954. After previously painting in an abstract style, de Staël had decided to reintroduce figurative elements into his work in 1952. Although the painting still retains strong aspects of abstraction, we can clearly identify the boat against the deep blue sky, on a dark sea. The artist had also recently abandoned the use of a palette knife and heavy impasto for much thinner, translucent paint, which he applied with brushes.
Updated before 2020
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artist:
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title:Le Bateau [The Boat]
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date created:1954
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:46.30 x 61.00 cm; Framed: 71.90 x 86.80 x 8.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1962
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accession number:GMA 817
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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...