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NICOLAS DE STAËL (1914-1955)
Agrigente
signed 'Staël' (lower left); signed again, titled and dated 'Agrigente Staël 1954' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (60 x 81 cm.)
Painted in 1953-1954.
Provenance
Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Private collection, Paris, circa 1959
Jerome Zipkin, New York, circa 1969
Private collection, London
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Private collection, France, 1988
Lefevre Fine Art, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
P. Bigongiari, "Nicolas de Staël il pittore del primo giorno della creazione," Venice Biennale, 10, no. 41, 1960, p. 23 (illustrated).
G.S. Whittet, "London Commentary," The Studio, London, 167, no. 843, July 1963, p. 265 (illustrated).
J. Dubourg and F. de Staël (eds.), Catalogue raisonné des peintures, Paris, 1968, no. 674, p. 289 (illustrated and dated 1953).
F. de Staël (ed.), Nicolas de Staël catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1997, pp. 491 and 675, no. 750 (illustrated).
M. Du Bouchet, Nicolas de Staël Une illumination sans précédent, Paris, 2003, p. 83 (illustrated).
G. Dumur, Le combat avec l’ange, Paris, 2009, p. 51 (illustrated).
N. Pastoureau, Yellow: The History of Color, Princeton, 2019, p. 221-222 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Venice, French Pavilion, XXVII Biennale, June-October 1954, pp. 162-163, no. 25 (illustrated).
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft; Hamburg, Kunstverein, Nicolas de Staël December 1959-January 1960, cat. no. 65.
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Nicolas de Staël May-June 1960, cat. no. 89 (illustrated).
London, Gimpel Gallery, Collector's Choice XII, April 1964, cat. no. 26 (illustrated).
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Collector's Choice, March 1969, cat. no. 84 (illustrated).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, France in Venice: The French Pavilion from 1948 to 1988, May-September 1990.
Paris, Hôtel de Ville, Nicolas de Staël Paintings and Drawings, March-June 1994, p. 181 (illustrated).
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Nicolas de Staël March-June 2003, p. 181, no. 175 (illustrated).
Le Havre, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux - MuMa, NICOLAS DE STAËL LUMIÈRES DU NORD. LUMIÈRES DU SUD, June-November 2014.
Aix-en-Provence, Hôtel de Caumont Centre d'Art, Nicolas de Staël en Provence, April-September 2018, p. 135 (illustrated on the front cover, dated 1953-1954).
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Please note that this work has been requested by the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris for their exhibition, Nicolas de Staël from 2023-2024.