id:			85885
accession number:	2020.121
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.121
updated:		2023-03-03 07:00:54.666000

Landscape at Le Lavandou, 1952. Nicolas de Stael (French, 1914–1955). Oil on canvas; 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

title:				Landscape at Le Lavandou
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creation date:			1952
creation date earliest:		1952
creation date latest:		1952
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creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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culture:	France
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Nicolas de Stael (French, 1914–1955)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 37.8 x 81 cm (14 7/8 x 31 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Artist’s signature: Staël
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955): Peintures et Dessins</em>, Galerie Motte, Geneva, Switzerland, (July-August 1967)

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PROVENANCE

	Alexandre Farra, Paris, France
	date: before 1967
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->“Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955): Peintures et Dessins,” Galerie Motte, Geneva, July-August 1967, cat. no. 24, notes the painting was previously in the Collection Farra, Paris.&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	(Galerie Brame, Paris, France, sold to Rachel Lambert (Mrs. Paul) Mellon [1911–2014])
	date: 1969
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			* <div><!--block-->According to Germain Viatte, André Chastel, and Anne de Staël, <em>Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint</em> (Neuchâtel: Ides et Calendes, 1997), p. 378, cat. no. 498, ill.&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	Rachel Lambert (Mrs. Paul) Mellon [1911–2014]
	date: 1969–2014
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			* <div><!--block-->According to Germain Viatte, André Chastel, and Anne de Staël, <em>Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint</em> (Neuchâtel: Ides et Calendes, 1997), p. 378, cat. no. 498, ill.&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	(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)
	date: November 10, 2014
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	Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2014–2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2020–
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fun fact:
The favorite artist of French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, De Staël is cited as an influence on the use of primary colors in the 1965 film <em>Pierrot Le Fou</em>.

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wall description:
Nicolas de Stael painted <em>Landscape at Le Lavandou </em>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 Cézanne, 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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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Staël, Nicolas de, André Chastel, Germain Viatte, Jacques Dubourg, and Françoise de Staël. <em>Nicolas De Staël</em>. Paris, France: le Temps 1968.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 183, cat. no. 362
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	Viatte, Germain, André Chastel, and Anne de Staël. <em>Nicolas de Staël: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint</em>. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Ides et Calendes, 1997.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 378, no. 498
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	<em>Nicolas de Staël, 1914-1955: Peintures et Dessins: Juillet-Août 1967.</em> Genève: Galerie Motte, 1967.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 16, no. 24
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