Nicolas De Stael

UK: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2016. Paperback. Near Fine/None. Pictorial softcover; spine is uncreased. (No DJ). Interior is clean and unmarked. Oblong small quarto, 10.5 x 9.25 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: This catalogue was printed on the occasion of the exhibition Nicolas de Stael held at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 1018 Madison Avenue, New York, May 2-May 31,2013. Laid in are a large gallery card and one-sheet on the exhibit. Frontis full-length photo of the artist. Illustrated in 11 vibrant, full-color reproductions. 'You look at a painting by Nicolas de Stael with the eyes of a child because you are learning a new language.' -from the text by Michael Peppiatt. 'It is with great pleasure that we present our second exhibition of Nicolas de Stael's work; the first took place in 1997 which was not only the gallery's inaugural exhibition but also the first show of Stael's work in New York in over thirty years. Today, sixteen years later, we are delighted to present the current select group of paintings, all from the 1950s, the most prolific and successful period of the artist's oeuvre. Featured in the exhibition are fine examples of Stael's central themes: still-life, landscape and abstract paintings ranging from the purely abstract Composition sur Fond Rouge which opens the show, to Fleurs dans un vase bleu, to depictions of landscapes from Honfleur to the French Riviera and even further south to Sicily and Agrigento.' -from the Foreword by David Nash.