Nicolas de Staël on canvas, poster, wallpaper and ArtFrame by Peter Balan
Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) was a French painter of Russian-Baltic origin and a significant representative of abstract art. He was born in Saint Petersburg, fled after the Russian Revolution, and studied from 1932 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. De Staël developed a distinctive style between abstraction and figuration with characteristic impasto technique and bold colors. From 1952, he turned from purely abstract to figurative art, creating a unique synthesis of both directions. His first major solo exhibition in 1953 at M. Knoedler & Co. in New York was a great success. In his last three years, he was extraordinarily productive, creating nearly three-quarters of his entire oeuvre before dying in Antibes in 1955.
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