Attr. Nicolas de Staël ( 1914-1955) Title: Untitled, Medium: Mixed media (Collage) on board, Size: 18.75" H x 22.75" W (inches), Date: ca. 1953. This lot is accompanied by a COA and is not a reproduction, it is a unique piece. We recommend that the buyer do their research before bidding on the lot. The sale of this lot is final. Was a celebrated French painter known for his distinctly abstracted landscapes rendered with thickly applied oil paint, often by palette knife. His deeply personal and expressive work features overlapping blocks of densely saturated color, vacillating between representational and the abstract. Firmly eschewing any explanation or interpretation of his art, De Stael explained that all my life, I had a need to think painting, to paint in order to liberate myself from all the impressions, all the feelings, and all the anxieties of which the only solution I know is painting." Born in St. Petersburg, Russia on January 5, 1914, De Stael studied at the Brussels Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, and spent the majority of his career living in France. He befriended contemporaries such as Georges Braque and Robert Delaunay, and enjoyed widespread critical success. Much of what we consider contemporary painting today including the Color Field movement was predicted in his later canvases. Despite the fact that his paintings were in high demand in New York and Paris, De Stael lifelong battle with depression ended on March 16, 1955, when he leapt from his studio window to his death in Antibes, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Grand Palais in Paris, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others.

Good condition.