Nicolas De Staël ‘marine’ : London : June 2022

With careful balance of depth and colour, ‘Marine’ (1954) powerfully represents the quiet vitality that best characterises de Staël’s pioneering visual language. The bold reduction of the coastal landscape into into planes of sweeping, saturated colour perfectly expresses the idiom that secured his reputation as one of the most important painters working in post-war France.

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