The Woman of spanish had on a shawl Blac
Lebanon
Henri Edmond Cross
Day
A Young Man in a Hat
Christophe Gabriel Allegrain Sculptor -0
REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
Landscape at Giverny
The Young maid
Jean-Laurent Mosnier
Portrait of a Man _5
The Bath -san06-
Solitude
An Actor
The White House at Chelsea
Portrait of a Lady with White Collar and
San Mateo Oaks -42-
HOLBEIN, Ambrosius
Mary Magdalen
Trip preparation
The Village School
Auguste Frederic Dufaux
Study of the raining at Paris street
Arthur-s Tomb- The Last Meeting of Launc
Pastoral with a Horse Chestnut Tree
SCOREL, Jan van
Pinevalley
Charles Green,RI
President Theodore Roosevelt
Japonaiserie-Bridge in the Rain -nn04-
View of a River, Perhaps in Padua df
Landscape with Waterfall
Bonaparte Crossing St. Bernard Pass
Eaton-s Neck,Long Island
The Stonebreaker
sock stretcher
Cows,Yellow,Red Green -34-
Birch, William Russell
Weaver near an Open Window -nn04-
Albena
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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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