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1914 Saint Petersburg, Russia - 1955 Antibes, France. Known for: Abstract painting, still life, figurative, landscapes.
Russian born, Nicolas de Stael achieved much prominence in France and the United States in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the 15 years, which were the height of his career, he completed about 1000... Read full biography
Russian born, Nicolas de Stael achieved much prominence in France and the United States in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the 15 years, which were the height of his career, he completed about 1000 paintings, with many of them Abstractions tied to Abstract Expressionism and Lyrical Abstraction,... Read full biography
Russian born, Nicolas de Stael achieved much prominence in France and the United States in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the 15 years, which were the height of his career, he completed about 1000 paintings, with many of them Abstractions tied to Abstract Expressionism and Lyrical Abstraction, but others later in his career were closer to Realism. On his earlier abstract work, he used a palette knife, applying paint heavily, and worked to achieve contrasting effects of light and dark.... Read full biography
Russian born, Nicolas de Stael achieved much prominence in France and the United States in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the 15 years, which were the height of his career, he completed about 1000 paintings, with many of them Abstractions tied to Abstract Expressionism and Lyrical Abstraction, but others later in his career were closer to Realism. On his earlier abstract work, he used a palette knife, applying paint heavily, and worked to achieve contrasting effects of light and dark. "Typically his paintings contained block-like slabs of colour, emerging as if struggling against one another across the surface of the image." However, his later paintings had thin applications of paint, and were much more subdued that his 'signature'... Read full biography
Russian born, Nicolas de Stael achieved much prominence in France and the United States in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the 15 years, which were the height of his career, he completed about 1000 paintings, with many of them Abstractions tied to Abstract Expressionism and Lyrical Abstraction, but others later in his career were closer to Realism. On his earlier abstract work, he used a palette knife, applying paint heavily, and worked to achieve contrasting effects of light and dark. "Typically his paintings contained block-like slabs of colour, emerging as if struggling against one another across the surface of the image." However, his later paintings had thin applications of paint, and were much more subdued that his 'signature' style. Nicolas De Stael had a difficult life as a child and during much of his early adulthood. He moved, at age four,... Read full biography
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- •Collage and/or Decoupage