Nicolas de Staël. Northern Lights, Southern Lights.
Gallimard| N° d'inventaire | 23061 |
| Format | 22 x 26 |
| Détails | 223 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782070145072 |
Nicolas de Staël produced, during a dazzling career between 1942 and 1955, one of the freest and most recognized artistic productions of the post-war period. After an abstract period, he evolved, at the time of the triumph of abstractions, towards a painting that reconnected with reality, nature and landscape, going beyond the apparent opposition between abstraction and figuration. Landscape, for Staël, is not the picturesque or the faithful description of a site, but above all light and space, the elements. He produced painted studies on the spot, also drew, in ink or felt-tip pen, during his travels, then took up the themes in the studio, in a continuous formal renewal, evolving from paintings with thick material to almost transparent fluidities. Gentilly, Mantes-la-Jolie, Honfleur, Villerville, Dieppe, Calais, Dunkirk, or Gravelines in the North; Le Lavandou, Lagnes, Ménerbes, Marseille, Uzès, Antibes, or Sicily to the South are these places of choice and circumstances crossed by the vision of this “nomad of light”.
Nicolas de Staël produced, during a dazzling career between 1942 and 1955, one of the freest and most recognized artistic productions of the post-war period. After an abstract period, he evolved, at the time of the triumph of abstractions, towards a painting that reconnected with reality, nature and landscape, going beyond the apparent opposition between abstraction and figuration. Landscape, for Staël, is not the picturesque or the faithful description of a site, but above all light and space, the elements. He produced painted studies on the spot, also drew, in ink or felt-tip pen, during his travels, then took up the themes in the studio, in a continuous formal renewal, evolving from paintings with thick material to almost transparent fluidities. Gentilly, Mantes-la-Jolie, Honfleur, Villerville, Dieppe, Calais, Dunkirk, or Gravelines in the North; Le Lavandou, Lagnes, Ménerbes, Marseille, Uzès, Antibes, or Sicily to the South are these places of choice and circumstances crossed by the vision of this “nomad of light”.