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In 1950, Nicolas de Staël entered a period of maturity in which he used a lighter palette and more spacious forms—as seen in this composition, which has been in only two private collections.
A transitional work: this is one way of considering Nicolas de Staël’s 1950 Composition à la nacre ( Composition in Mother-of-Pearl ). It lies between two periods in the short but intensely disciplined career of this pioneer of abstraction in France: after his early dark, expressive works of the 1940s, and before the colorful mosaics that began appearing in 1952. By December 1951, he was already…
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