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Nicolas de Stael The Still life of tobacco pipe mk107
about 1941
64x80cm
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Nicolas de Stael Black Figure mk107
1946
Oil painting
200x150.5cm
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Nicolas de Stael Figure mk107
1942
Oil painting
130x71.5cm
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Nicolas de Stael Figure mk107
1943
Oil painting
114x72cm
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Nicolas de Stael The Light of Day mk10
1944
Oil painting
105x69cm
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Nicolas de Stael The gray background of the figure mk107
1944
Oil painting
89x115cm
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Nicolas de Stael TheTruncation of Light mk107
1946
Oil painting
100x65cm
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Nicolas de Stael Cube mk107
1946
Oil painting
65x54cm
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Nicolas de Stael Painting mk107
1947
Oil painting
195.6x97.5cm
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Nicolas de Stael Figure mk107
1947
Oil painting
194x129cm
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Nicolas de Stael Red Figure mk107
1947
Oil painting
22x27cm
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Nicolas de Stael Split mk107
1947
Oil painting
19x24cm
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Nicolas de Stael Figure mk107
105x76cm
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Nicolas de Stael Figure mk107
1948
Oil painting
27x41cm
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Nicolas de Stael Figure mk107
1948
Oil painting
81x116cm
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Nicolas de Stael Quiet mk107
1949
Oil painting
96.5x162.5cm
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Nicolas de Stael Figure mk107
1949
200x100cm
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Nicolas de Stael The Portrait of Olek Teslar mk107
1941
Oil painting
33x24cm
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Nicolas de Stael The Portrait of Olek Teslar mk107
1941-1942
Oil painting
81x60cm
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Nicolas de Stael Figure mk107
1950
Oil painting
24x35cm
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Nicolas de Stael
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Russian Painter.1914-1955
was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles Nocolas de Stael was born in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Stael von Holstein family, and the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress) and his wife, Olga Sakhanskaya. De Stael's family was forced to emigrate to Poland in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution; Both, his father and stepmother, would die in Poland and the orphaned Nicolas de Stael would be sent with his older sister Marina to Brussels to live with a Russian family (1922). He eventually studied art at the Brussels Acad??mie royale des beaux-arts (1932). In the 1930s, he travelled throughout Europe, lived in Paris (1934) and in Morocco (1936) (where he first met his companion Jeannine Guillou, also a painter and who would appear in some of his paintings from 1941-1942) and Algeria. In 1936 he had his first exhibition of Byzantine style icons and watercolors at the Galerie Dietrich et Cie, Brussels. He joined the French Foreign Legion in 1939 and was demobilized in 1941.
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