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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

60 x 81

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'Stal' (lower left); signed again, titled and dated 'Agrigente Stal 1954' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Venice, French Pavilion, XXVII Biennale, June-October 1954, pp. 162-163, no. 25 (illustrated). Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft; Hamburg, Kunstverein, Nicolas de Stal, December 1959-January 1960, cat. no. 65. Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Nicolas de Stal, 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, Htel de Ville, Nicolas de Stal Paintings and Drawings, March-June 1994, p. 181 (illustrated).Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Nicolas de Stal, March-June 2003, p. 181, no. 175 (illustrated).Le Havre, Muse dart moderne Andr Malraux - MuMa, NICOLAS DE STAL. LUMIRES DU NORD. LUMIRES DU SUD, June-November 2014.Aix-en-Provence, Htel de Caumont Centre d'Art, Nicolas de Stal en Provence, April-September 2018, p. 135 (illustrated on the front cover, dated 1953-1954).

Literature:

P. Bigongiari, Nicolas de Stal il pittore del primo giorno della creazione

Provenance:

Jacques Dubourg, ParisPrivate collection, Paris, circa 1959Jerome Zipkin, New York, circa 1969Private collection, LondonGalerie Beyeler, BaselPrivate collection, France, 1988Lefevre Fine Art, LondonAcquired from the above by the present owner