Nicolas de Staël worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Nicolas de Staël as Russian painter (1914-1955).
Nicolas de Staël was born at Saint Petersburg in 1914. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels and Académie Moderne.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as painter and printmaker.
Among his best-known works are Le Parc des Princes and Rue Gauguet. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Nicolas de Staël died in 1955, aged 41. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Le Parc des Princes
- Notable work: Rue Gauguet
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