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Nicolas de Staël was a Russian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1914. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sotheby's London have featured Nicolas de Staël's work in the past.Nicolas de Staël's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 31 USD to 22,248,523 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 22,248,523 USD for Parc des Princes (Les grands footballeurs), sold at Christie's Paris in 2019. In the past 12 months, his prints & graphic art have averaged 448 USD.Nicolas de Staël has been featured in articles for Observer, Apollo and ArtLyst. The most recent article is The 20/21 sales at Christie's France totals $86 million written for ArtDaily in October 2024. The artist died in 1955.
Following the successful Danute and Alain Mallart Collection on 18 October, Christie’s held yesterday its evening auction: Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian, celebrating important 20th and 21st century art by offering over fifty major works.
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..Hovering between figuration and abstraction, his paintings are marked by their heavily impastoed surface, their simplicity of composition, and a bold but sophisticated use of color...
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..De Staël was once quoted as saying that painting consisted of “l’entre-deux, what lies between the two.” This notion is evident everywhere in his painting, as the juxtaposition of abstract shapes of color...
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