Portrait of Marguerite -35-
GIRARDON, Francois
Subotica
Maxfield Parrish
Pamplona
Female Model in Bright Red Jacket and Pa
Flower and life
Mr.R.N.Blatt-s -Thorn- With Busby Up on
Clark, Kate Freeman
Beacon Rock at Newport Harbor
Brookwood
Holy Family with the Infant St John af
Nowy Sacz
Bayshoregardens
art of war
Portrait of an Old Man
Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and
Antonio del Pollaiolo,Hercules and the H
Ruins of Llanthony Abbey
Church Interior -08-
Nanteuil, Robert
Malczewski, Jacek
Kaunakakai
pictures framed
In a Room
Mustvee
Still Life with Chafing Dish, Pewter, Go
Camille or The Woman with a Green Dress
Marie Spartali Stillman
impressionism in music
Brea
Schone Maria
Fremont
Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park Walter Faw
Switzcity
Details of Fate of the Animals -34-
CRIVELLI, Vittorio
View of the Lake of Nemi at Sunset -05-
A Soldier with an Officer-s Charge
art can fine inspiration technique tin
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Nicolas de Stael:
Russian Painter.1914-1955
was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles Nocolas de Stael was born in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Stael von Holstein family, and the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress) and his wife, Olga Sakhanskaya. De Stael's family was forced to emigrate to Poland in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution; Both, his father and stepmother, would die in Poland and the orphaned Nicolas de Stael would be sent with his older sister Marina to Brussels to live with a Russian family (1922). He eventually studied art at the Brussels Acad??mie royale des beaux-arts (1932). In the 1930s, he travelled throughout Europe, lived in Paris (1934) and in Morocco (1936) (where he first met his companion Jeannine Guillou, also a painter and who would appear in some of his paintings from 1941-1942) and Algeria. In 1936 he had his first exhibition of Byzantine style icons and watercolors at the Galerie Dietrich et Cie, Brussels. He joined the French Foreign Legion in 1939 and was demobilized in 1941.
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