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"tombstone": "Landscape at Le Lavandou, 1952. Nicolas de Sta\u00ebl (French, 1914\u20131955). Oil on canvas; framed: 54 x 97.2 x 6.3 cm (21 1/4 x 38 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 37.8 x 81 cm (14 7/8 x 31 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.121",
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"title": "Landscape at Le Lavandou",
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"According to Germain Viatte, Andre\u0301 Chastel, and Anne de Stae\u0308l, Nicolas de Stae\u0308l: Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 de l'Oeuvre Peint (Neucha\u0302tel: Ides et Calendes, 1997), p. 378, cat. no. 498, ill.
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"According to Germain Viatte, Andre\u0301 Chastel, and Anne de Stae\u0308l, Nicolas de Stae\u0308l: Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 de l'Oeuvre Peint (Neucha\u0302tel: Ides et Calendes, 1997), p. 378, cat. no. 498, ill.
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"description": "(Sotheby's, New York, NY, Property from the Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon, November 10, 2014, lot 10, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)",
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"did_you_know": "The favorite artist of French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, De Sta\u00ebl is cited as an influence on the use of primary colors in the 1965 film Pierrot Le Fou.",
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"description": "Nicolas de Sta\u00ebl painted Landscape at Le Lavandou at a major turning point in his artistic development. After years of painting abstract compositions in the studio, he surprised his contemporaries when he began working outdoors in 1952. Seeking greater contact with nature, he spent his last years working largely along the Mediterranean coast. His attempt at reconciling abstraction and figuration, not valuing one over the other, was regarded as a breakthrough toward a more lyrical, French form of abstraction in the tradition of Paul Cezanne, Georges Braque, and Henri Matisse. The long, horizontal composition in this painting is divided into zones of blue and red that evoke associations with land and sea.",
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"citation": "Sta\u00ebl, Nicolas de, Fran\u00e7oise de Sta\u00ebl, Gustave de Sta\u00ebl, Murielle Zuchelli, Jean-Marie Clarke, Marie du Bouchet, Eliza Rathbone, Germain Viatte, Andr\u00e9 Chastel, Roger van Gindertael, and Anne de Sta\u00ebl. Nicolas de Sta\u00ebl Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the Paintings. Lausanne: Editions Ides et Calendes, 2021. Reproduced: p. 332, no. 498.",
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"citation": "Stae\u0308l, Nicolas de, Andre\u0301 Chastel, Germain Viatte, Jacques Dubourg, and Franc\u0327oise de Stae\u0308l. Nicolas De Stae\u0308l. Paris, France: le Temps 1968.",
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"citation": "Viatte, Germain, Andre\u0301 Chastel, and Anne de Stae\u0308l. Nicolas de Stae\u0308l: catalogue raisonne\u0301 de l'\u0153uvre peint. Neucha\u0302tel, Switzerland: Ides et Calendes, 1997.",
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"citation": "Nicolas de Stae\u0308l, 1914-1955: Peintures et Dessins: Juillet-Aou\u0302t 1967. Gene\u0300ve: Galerie Motte, 1967.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 16, no. 24",
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"citation": "Robinson, William H. \"Modern European Painting.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 132-139, 142-149. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
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