Rome
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Self-Portrait with Raised Arms,Back View
Young Woman
On the Thames, a Heron
are frames
abstract architecture
Above the Clouds at Sunrise
Blue Black Fox
Woman at a Window -22-
photo personals
Portrait of Eleonora, Queen of France
Black Square
Still Life with Gingerpot II
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop-s Gr
The Pont du Gard AF
Claypool
The Annunciation
black and white scenery
The Shining Stream
Riders on Lake Tegernsee
Judith Beheading Holofernes -detail- vc
Landscape with Wild Animals
Coronation of the Virgin and Saints -det
The Buffoon Don Cristobal de Castaneda y
Woman Bathing in a Stream
The Paradise dfg
Raritan
Boswell
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens -19-
Saints Benedict, Thecla, and Damian
The still life of rose
Recreation by our Gallery
Paris France
Details of The Execution of Maximilian
Mary, Countess Howe
Masek, Vitezlav Karel
River Landscape
The Virgin Enthroned sg
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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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